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Home>Collection & Louvre Palace>Selected Works>Let There be Light!
Selected Works Let There be Light!
This selection of artworks centers round the sun, light, and how they are portrayed by artists. Regardless of how it is painted or portrayed, light is a key element in the components of an artwork.
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Egyptian Antiquities
Chandelier
Byzantine era, 5th-7th century
Unknown
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Egyptian Antiquities
"Frog" oil lamp
3rd-4th century AD
Medamod, Bisson de la Roque excavation
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Prints and Drawings
Pierre-Narcisse Guérin (Paris, 1774-Rome, 1833)
Woman Holding a Child and...
1800
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Prints and Drawings
Camille Corot (Paris 1796-Paris 1875)
Hymn to the Sun
1865
A gift from the artist to Alfred Robaut;...
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Prints and Drawings
Nicolas POUSSIN (Les Andelys, 1594-Rome, 1665)
The Eucharist
1647
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Paintings
Joseph WRIGHT, also known as WRIGHT OF DERBY (Derby,...
Lake Nemi, Sunset
1790
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Paintings
Leonardo di ser Piero DA VINCI, known as Leonardo da...
The Virgin of the Rocks
c. 1483−1486
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Paintings
Salvator ROSA
Saul and the Witch of Endor
1668 (?)
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Paintings
Caspar David FRIEDRICH
Seashore by Moonlight
1818
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Paintings
Jacob (Isaacksz.) van RUISDAEL
The Ray of Sunlight
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Paintings
Rembrandt Harmensz. VAN RIJN, known as REMBRANDT
Portrait of Hendrickje Stoffels...
c. 1654
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Paintings
Anne-Louis GIRODET DE ROUSSY-TRIOSON
The Sleep of Endymion
Salons of 1793 and 1814
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Paintings
Jean-Honoré FRAGONARD (Grasse, 1732 - Paris, 1806)
The Bolt
C. 1777
Painted for the Marquis de Véri
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Paintings
Eugène DELACROIX
The Death of Sardanapalus
Salon of 1827
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Paintings
Anne-Louis GIRODET DE ROUSSY-TRIOSON
The Entombment of Atala
Salon of 1808
