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2nd Floor (Sully Wing)
Étage 2
Rooms 900 to 952
Louvre Floor Plan (room descriptions)
Department of Paintings
French Painting
Room 28 Georges de La Tour Room, France
Le Tricheur – The Cheat with the Ace of Diamonds
Room 54 French, David and his students Jacques-Louis David
Room 913 Philippe de CHAMPAIGNE (Brussels, 1602 – Paris, 1674)
Mother Catherine-Agnès Arnault (1593 – 1671) and Sister Catherine de Sainte Suzanne de Champaigne (1636-1686)
Room 917 Watteau Jean-Antoine WATTEAU (Valenciennes
Pierrot (a Sad Clown), formerly known as Gilles
Escalier Daru
BY FAR, our favorite experience at Le Louvre every visit is ascending the Daru Stairs
We arrive as early as possible, to be one of the first to enter the Denon Wing
Up an escalator, through admission, then ascending a small spiral staircase
Through a hall of Classical and Italian Sculpture – the Daru Stairs appear
with the giant Winged Victory of Samothrace at the top
If it is soon after opening, we ascend an emppty staircase. If it is later in the day, the staircase is littered with loiterers, sculkers and tourists (just like ourselves)
The Daru Stairs
Victory of Samothrace Staircase
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Les Escaliers du Louvre
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The Louvre stairs
Louvre-passion
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Albert ANDRE
Lyon, 1869 – Laudun, 1954
The Daru Stairs, around 1910
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1st Floor (Denon Wing)
Denon Wing (South Wing of the Louvre)
1st Floor “1er Etage”
first floor above ground level (what others might call the 2nd Floor)
Rooms 700 to 734
Baron Denon
Louvre Floor Plan (room descriptions)
Department of Painting
Department of Paintings: Italian painting
Room 706 The Salles Percier et Fontaine
former museum vestibule, are all that remain of the magnificent original decoration commissioned by Napoleon, with marble columns, sculpted ceilings decorated with allegorical paintings and trompe l’oeil bas-reliefs
now at top of Escalier (staircase) Daru
Venus and the Three Graces Presenting Gifts to a Young Woman
Alessandro Filipepi, known as Sandro Botticelli (Florence, c. 1445 – Florence, 1510)
Room 708 Salon Carré (Square Salon)
Italian paintings from the 12th to 15th centuries
St. Francis of Assisi Receiving the Stigmata
Giotto di Bondone Giotto
Room 710, 712, 716
Room 5 Grande Gallerie
The Virgin and Child with Saint Anne
Leonardo di ser Piero DA VINCI, dit Leonardo da Vinci
(Vinci, 1452 – Amboise, 1519)
Portrait of Baldassare Castiglione
Raffaello SANTI, dit Raphael
(Urbino, 1483 – Rome, 1520)
Death of the Virgin
Michelangelo MERISI, dit Carravaggio
(Milan ?, 1571 – Porto Ercole, 1610)
Room 6 Salle des Etats, Italy
Mona Lisa Room
Room 26 Murillo
Spanish Paintings
Room 700 Mollien
Étude de deux tigres, dit aussi Jeune tigre jouant avec sa mère (Eugène DELACROIX)
Study of two tigers, also known as Young tiger playing with its mother
Le Radeau de la Meduse (Théodore Géricault)
Raft of the Medusa
Room 702 Daru
The Oath of the Horatii (Jacques-Louis DAVID)
Room 705 Galerie d’Apollon
served as a model for the Hall of Mirrors of the Palace of Versailles
Room 32 Gainsborough British and american paintings
English Paintings
Large-Format 19th Century French Paintings Gallery
Room 75 Salle Daru Neoclassicism, France
Room 76 Salle Denon
Room 77 Salle Mollien Romanticism, France
Curatorial Departments (Louvre)
Eight (8) Curratorial Departments (Wikimedia Commons)
Near Eastern Antiquities
Greek, Etruscan, and Roman Antiquities
A Closer Look The Madonna of the Rabbit
(The Virgin and Child with Saint Catherine and a Shepherd)
2nd Floor (Richelieu Wing)
Étage 2
Rooms 800 to 864
Louvre Floor Plan (room descriptions)
Department of Paintings
Richelieu Wing (North Wing of the Louvre)
2nd Floor
French Painting
Room 8 16th-century portrait painters (Portrait of François I, King of France (1494-1547) )
Room 10 The second School of Fontainebleau (Gabrielle d’Estrées and One of Her Sisters )
Flemish Painting
Room 18 Rubens: the Galerie Médicis Peter Paul Rubens
https://www.360cities.net/image/galerie-mdicis-richelieu-2nd-floor-room-18-louvre-paris-2014
Dutch Painting
Room 30 Holland, first half of the 17th century Frans Hals
Room 31 Salle Rembrandt REMBRANDT Harmensz. van Rijn
Room 33 Holland, middle and second half of 17th century Adriaen van Ostade
Room 38 Holland, second half of the 17th century Johannes Vermeer
Room E Germany and Russia, first half of the 19th century Caspar David Friedrich
Room 809 (Netherlands 16th Century)
Self-Portrait or Portrait of the Artist Holding a Thistle
Albrecht DÜRER (Nuremberg, 1471 – Nuremberg, 1528)
(His watercolor of a Young Hare (1502) is a prized posession of the Albertina Museum, Vienna)
Room 810 (Northern Schools)
The Beggars
Pieter BRUEGEL the Elder (Breughel[?], circa 1525-Brussels, 1569)
Room 818 (Netherlands 15th Century)
The Virgin and Child with Chancellor Rolin
Jan van EYCK (Maaseick, c. 1390-95 – Bruges, 1441)
Room 822 (16th-century portrait painters)
Portrait of François I, king of France (1494-1547)
Jean CLOUET (?, c. 1480 – ?, 1540-41)
Room 824 (The second School of Fontainebleau)
Gabrielle d’Estrées and One of Her Sisters
anonymous (Fontainebleau school (late 16th century) )
Room 826 (The painters of Louis XIII) Department of French Paintings
La Richesse (Wealth)
Simon VOUET (Paris, 1590 – Paris, 1649)
Room 834 (Henri Bellechose) Department of French Paintings
Altarpiece: Martyrdom of St. Denis
Henri BELLECHOSE (documented in Dijon from 1415 to 1444)
Large Round Pietà Attributed to Jean MALOUEL (Nijmegen, c. 1365 – Dijon, 1415)
Ground Floor (Denon Wing)
Étage 0
Rooms 400 to 433
Louvre Floor Plan (room descriptions)
Roman Art
Department of Greek, Etruscan, and Roman Antiquities:
Hellenistic Art (3rd-1st centuries BC)
Escalier Daru Victory of Samothrace staircase
The Winged Victory of Samothrace C. 190 BC Greece
Galerie Daru Room B
Borghese Gladiator
Room 1 Head of a female statue (Pre-Classical Greece)
Department of Sculptures: Italy
Galerie Donatello
Room 1 La Vierge et l’Enfant
Donato di Niccolò di Betto Bardi, known as Donatello (1386, Florence, Italy – December 13, 1466, Florence, Italy
Michelangelo gallery
Room 4 Sculptures Italy (3rd-1st centuries BC)
Rebellious Slave and Dying Slave (Michelangelo BUONARROTI, known as Micahelangelo (Caprese, 1475 – Rome, 1564))
Psyché ranimée par le baiser de l’Amour à la loupe Prime Version 1787-1793
Psyche Revived by Cupid’s Kiss (Antonio Canova)
Etruscan Art (9th-1st centuries BC)
Room 28 L’empereur Hadrien (buste de empereur hadrien)
Denon Wing (South Wing of the Louvre)
Poilâne
Pain Poilâne (Bread)
Our first day in Paris, we visit our favorite boulangerie and purchase a baguette covered with seeds (Baguette aux Céréales)
Days later during our visit, we may be less inclined to make a special trip to a legendary bread store, and just pick up the packaged loaf of sliced Poilâne at the grocery store instead.
This bag of bread lasts several days – we bring the last few slices back home. When we finish the last slice back in Chicago, we are reminded why we go to Paris.
One of the reasons I moved to Paris is that I could, whenever I wanted to, go to Poilâne and buy myself a nice chunk of pain Poilâne
-David Lebovitz
Poilâne (The New Yorker)
Pain Poilâne is produced in the Latin Quarter of Paris where it is sold at the original (1932) boulangerie on rue du Cherche-Midi in Saint-Germain-des-Prés
A second Paris bakery is located on boulevard de Grenelle in the 15th arrondissement.
Lionel Poilane, The Baker (CBS Sunday Morning)
Worldwide Distribution is handled by a facility in North-Central France (Bièvres)
A facility opened 2000 in London
all have replicas of the wood-burning ovens used at the Paris locations
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