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Selected Works Animals

Embark on a discovery of fauna from around the world through the Musée du Louvre collections! Lions, monkeys, peacocks and rabbits share space with the most fantastical animals. Mosaic, sculpture and painting are just a few of the mediums used to represent Man’s best friends.

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Decorative Arts

Flanders?

Tapestry of the Bears
Paintings

Pieter BoelAntwerp, 1622 - Paris, 1674

Study of a Crowned Crane

Painted between 1669 and 1671

Louis XIV collection
Near Eastern Antiquities

Statue of a lion

Beginning of 2nd millenium BC

"Temple of the Lions", Mari
Egyptian Antiquities

Sobek-Re

Late Period, 664-332 BC
Near Eastern Antiquities

Panel with sphinxes

Achaemenid Persian Dynasty, 522-486 BC

Tell of the Apadana, Susa, Iran
Near Eastern Antiquities

Painting from Til Barsip

Neo-Assyrian period, 8th century BC

Ancient Til Barsip, present-day Tell Ahmar,...
Egyptian Antiquities

Nile Fishing Scene

Old Kingdom, late Fifth Dynasty or early Sixth Dynasty,...

Saqqara (Egypt)
Near Eastern Antiquities

Monkey statuette
Sculptures

Antoine-Louis BARYE

Lion and Serpent
Egyptian Antiquities

Hippopotamus figurine

Second Intermediate Period, Seventeenth Dynasty,...

Egypt, Thebes, Dra Abu el-Naga
Egyptian Antiquities

Guardian Lion at the Entrance to a...

Reign of Nectanebo I, Thirtieth Dynasty (378-341 BC)

Saqqara, Serapeum
Near Eastern Antiquities

Frieze of Griffins

Circa 510 BC

Apadana, west courtyard of the palace, Susa,...
Egyptian Antiquities

Four baboons adoring the rising sun

New Kingdom, 19th Dynasty, reign of Ramesses II...

Luxor, Temple of Amun, base of East obelisk
Sculptures

Fountain of Diana

Middle of 16th century
Decorative Arts

Charles-Jean Sallandrouze de LAMORNAIX

Elephant Tapestry

1844
Greek, Etruscan, and Roman Antiquities

Cockerel

Roman period

Provenance: found in the river at Lyon,...
Decorative Arts

Manufacture de la Savonnerie

Central Medallion of a Carpet

1806-10
Egyptian Antiquities

Cat

26th Dynasty, reign of Psammetichus I, 664-610 BC
Decorative Arts

Paris

Camel clock