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Photograph a work in the Louvre Museum and Lensmark tells you who made it, when, and why it matters, with every fact linked to its source.

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Louvre Museum

Paris, France

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Take a photo and read the work's sourced story

Illustrative photo demo

Illustrative collection

  1. Take a permitted photo Use a photo allowed by the museum's current rules.
  2. Read the sourced history When Lensmark can verify the work, it explains what the sources support and links to them. When it cannot, it says so plainly.
  3. Ask a follow-up Continue with a question about the work's maker, age or significance.
  4. Your Louvre Museum walk saves itself. Just take pictures. Each work is kept with its sourced history, grouped by day.

Images in the demo: Mona Lisa, Leonardo da Vinci, 1503 / 1519. This Louvre Museum work is reproduced from a public-domain file on Wikimedia Commons.

What the Louvre Museum collection covers

The Louvre opened as a museum in 1793 inside the former royal palace in Paris. Its collections span painting, sculpture, antiquities, decorative arts, prints and drawings, and Islamic art. History

Leonardo's portrait of Lisa Gherardini and ancient Greek figures such as the Venus de Milo offer different starting points in the collection. The Louvre's catalogue records works beyond the galleries too, including objects in storage and on loan.

Its collection strengths include European painting, Ancient Mediterranean sculpture, Egyptian antiquities, and Islamic art.

  • Mona Lisa

    Leonardo da Vinci

    Date
    1503 / 1519

    Leonardo painted Lisa Gherardini seated before a landscape. The Louvre identifies the portrait as INV 779 and records its support as poplar wood.

    Read the museum record

  • Venus de Milo

    Unknown Greek sculptor

    Date
    -150 / -125

    This marble figure represents Aphrodite, with drapery around her legs. Discovered on the island of Melos in 1820, it entered the Louvre in 1821 and bears catalogue number Ma 399.

    Read the museum record

  • Winged Victory of Samothrace

    Unknown Hellenistic sculptor

    Date
    -200 / -175

    The winged goddess Nike stands on a base shaped like a ship's prow. The Louvre records this sculpture from Samothrace under catalogue number Ma 2369.

    Read the museum record

These are collection records, not confirmation that the works are on display today.

Check the photography rules first

The Louvre permits personal photography and video in the permanent collections without flash, lighting, selfie sticks, tripods or stands, while temporary exhibitions may prohibit it; do not photograph technical installations or equipment, cross barriers, touch artworks, obstruct passageways or disturb others, respect the reputation of the museum, staff and visitors, obtain prior written authorisation for professional photography or filming, and obtain consent and museum permission to record staff or visitors. Read its current visitor conditions and follow gallery signs before taking a photo. Louvre Museum photography policy

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