3 Principal artists and works
Michelangelo, Slave, known as Rebel, sculpture, c.1513, acquired 1794
Michelangelo, Slave, known as Dying or Asleep, sculpture, c.1513, acquired 1794
Venus de Milo, sculpture, late Hellenistic, acquired 1827
Leonardo da Vinci, Mona Lisa, painting, 1501–6, acquired 1519
Cimabue, Maestà, painting, c.1270, acquired 1814
Diana of the Louvre (also known as Diana of Versailles), sculpture, Roman copy of Greek original with seventeenth-century restorations, acquired by Francis I c.1530s, acquired by Louvre 1798
Hyacinthe Rigaud, Louis XIV, painting, 1701, acquired 1701 (commissioned by king)
Unknown French artist, Paris Parlement altarpiece, c.1452, acquired 1789
Titian, Francis I, painting, 1537, acquired 1538 (commissioned by king)
Raphael, Virgin and Child with Saint John the Baptist (also known as La Belle Jardiniere), painting, 1508, acquired 1530
Andrea del Sarto, Charity, painting, 1518, acquired 1518 (commissioned by king)
Raphael, Saint Michael and the Dragon (also known as Saint Michael Confounding the Devil), painting, 1518, acquired 1518 (commissioned by the Pope as a gift for the king)
Giuseppe Castiglione, View of the Salon Carré in 1861, painting, 1861, transferred from Ministry of Finance to the Louvre 1933
Titian, Le Concert Champêtre, painting, 1510, acquired 1671
Naked Mercury Attaching his Sandal, sculpture, antique, acquired 1797
Venus of Vienne (also known as Crouching Aphrodite), sculpture, probably Roman copy of Greek Hellenistic original, acquired 1848
Coysevox, Crouching Venus, sculpture, 1685, acquired 1685 (commissioned by king)
Titian, The Entombment, painting, 1525, acquired 1662
Peter Paul Rubens, The Disembarkation of Marie de’ Medici, painting, 1622, acquired 1693
Nicolas Poussin, The Rape of the Sabines, painting, 1685, acquired 1685
Charles Le Brun, The Queens of Persia at the Feet of Alexander (also known as The Tent of Darius), painting, 1660–1, acquired 1661
Charles Le Brun, The Conquest of Franche Comté, 1660, acquired 1660 (commissioned by king)
Charles Le Brun, The Battle of Arbella, painting, before 1673, acquired 1673 (commissioned by king)
Jacques-Louis David, The Sabine Women, painting, 1799, acquired 1819
Eugene Delacroix, Scenes from the Massacre of Chios, painting, 1824, acquired after the Salon 1824
G.P. Panini, Gallery with Views of Ancient Rome, painting, 1758, acquired 1944
Nicholas Coustou, Borghese Gladiator, sculpture, copy of antique, 1683, acquired1874
Nicholas Coustou, Farnese Hercules, sculpture, copy of antique, 1683, acquired 1874
Nicholas Coustou, Apollo Unveiling a Bust of Louis XIV, sculpture, 1688, acquired1793
Guillaume Coustou, The Horses of Marly, sculpture, 1739–49, acquired 1794
Pierre Puget, Alexander and Diogenes, sculpture, 1689, acquired 1833
Pierre Puget, Milo of Crotona, sculpture, 1670–82, acquired 1824
Decorative roundels in Salle de Mars, new entrance to Musée Napoleon, 1800, featuring:
Milo of Crotona by Puget
Moses by Michelangelo
Apollo Belvedere (antique)
Colossus of Memnon
Apollo Belvedere, sculpture, antique, acquired 1797
Eugene Deveria, Puget Presenting his Statue of Milo of Crotona to Louis XV in the Gardens of Versailles, oil sketch for mural, 1832, acquired 1833
Nicolas de Largillierre, Charles Le Brun, painting, 1683–6, acquired 1793
F. Girardon, Louis XIV on Horseback, sculpture (bronze maquette for the statue in the Place des Victoires destroyed during the French Revolution), 1692, acquired 1784
François Boucher, Diana Bathing, painting, 1742, acquired 1852
Jacques-Louis David, The Oath of the Horatii, painting, 1784, acquired 1784
Jean Antoine Watteau, The Pilgrimage to Cythera, painting, 1717, acquired 1790s
Hubert Robert, The ‘Salle des Saisons’, painting, 1802–3, acquired 1964
Hubert Robert, The Grande Galerie in Ruins, painting, c.1801–5
Benjamin Zix, The Marriage Procession of Napoleon and Marie-Louise through the Grand Galerie, painting, 1810 (Musée Ceramique, Sèvres)
Eustache Le Sueur, Saints Gervasius and Protasius before Anastasius, painting, 1652,acquired 1793
Dionysus and the Infant Bacchus, sculpture, antique from the Borghese collection, acquired 1809
Borghese Gladiator, sculpture, antique from the Borghese collection, acquired 1809
Paolo Veronese, The Marriage at Cana, painting, 1562, acquired 1798
Andrea Mantegna, Calvary, painting, 1457, acquired 1798
Bulls of Khorsabad, sculpture, Assyrian, excavation began 1843
Nyke of Samothrace, sculpture, Hellenistic, acquired 1863
Hubert Robert, Projected Redesign of the Grande Galerie, painting, 1796, acquired 1975
François Biard, Four O’Clock at the Salon (also known as We’re Closing), painting, 1847
Hubert Robert, The Grande Galerie, painting, 1795, acquired 1948
Hubert Robert, The Grande Galerie in the Course of Restoration, 1796–9, acquired 1946