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Selected Works Kings, Queens and Emperors

The Musée du Louvre boasts a number of artworks illustrating royal power in all its forms. From objects associated with the Coronation to statues and portraits, kings, queens and emperors succeeded in imposing their image on the people through the arts.

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Egyptian Antiquities

Amenophis IV

New Kingdom, Eighteenth Dynasty, reign of Amenophis...

Temple of Karnak, east precinct, Luxor, Egypt
Greek, Etruscan, and Roman Antiquities

Augustus (Emperor from 27 BC to AD...

C. 20 BC (head), first third of 2nd century BC (body)

Provenance: Velletri (Italy)
Egyptian Antiquities

Body of a Woman, probably Nefertiti

New Kingdom, 18th Dynasty, reign of Amenophis...
Greek, Etruscan, and Roman Antiquities

Caracalla (Emperor from AD 211 to...

AD 212-215
Paintings

Anthony van DYCK

Charles I at the Hunt
Sculptures

François BAROIS

Cleopatra Dying

Provenance: collections of the Académie Royale
Egyptian Antiquities

Colossal statue of Ramesses II

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

Tanis
Decorative Arts

Coronation sword and scabbard of...

Tenth-eleventh centuries (pommel), twelfth century...

Treasury of the Abbey of Saint-Denis, France
Decorative Arts

Augustin DUFLOS, jeweler

Crown of Louis XV

1722
Greek, Etruscan, and Roman Antiquities

Emperor Hadrian

Circa AD 118-121 or second quarter of second century AD