The Musée du Louvre/ Louvre Museum Opened On This Day in 1793

On this day in 1793, during the French Revolution, the Musée Central des Arts in the Grande Galerie of the Louvre, now known generally as the Musée du Louvre, opened it's doors to the public as a museum.

These days, it is widely regarded as one of the biggest art museums, with some of the most famous art works in the world housed inside.

Seemed worth noting and publishing this blog in honor of the Louvre today.

1793  Louvre Museum opens HISTORY.com Editors  Published: February 09, 2010  Last Updated: May 27, 2025

https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/august-10/louvre-museum-opens

Exterior of the Louvre and the Pyramid

Inverted Pyramid

Paintings

Mona Lisa

 

The Raft of the Medusa/Le Radeau de La Méduse by Théodore Géricault

Bonaparte Visits the Plague Stricken in Jaffa/Bonaparte visitant les pestiférés de Jaffa -  oil-on-canvas painting commissioned by Napoleon Bonaparte and painted in 1804 by Antoine-Jean Gros

Napoleon Bonaparte on the Battlefield of Eylau/ Napoléon sur le champ de Bataille d'Eylau by Antoine-Jean Gros (9 février 1807)

The Coronation of Napoleon/Sacre de l'empereur Napoléon 1er et couronnement de l'impératrice Joséphine dans la cathédrale Notre-Dame de Paris, le 2 décembre 1804 by Jacques-Louis David

Oath of the Horatii/ Le Serment des Horaces by Jacques-Louis David

The Intervention of the Sabine Women/ Les Sabines by Jacques-Louis David

Sculptures

The Winged Victory of Samothrace, or the Nike of Samothrace/ La Victoire de Samothrace Atop the Daru Staircase

Alexander the Great/ Alexandre le Grand

Venus de Milo Greek sculpture likely dating from 150 and 125 BC by Alexandros of Antioch

Aphrodite, AKA the 'Venus of Arles'