Go to content Go to navigation Go to search Change language

Home>Collection & Louvre Palace>Selected Works>Music

Selected Works Music

Enjoy a symphony of music portrayed in the artworks of the Museum’s collections. Instruments, balls and concerts accompany Apollo, Saint Cecile and Orpheus for our viewing pleasure, since there were no recordings at the time!

Back to all selections

Close

Egyptian Antiquities

Angle harp

After the New Kingdom, 1069-332 BC
Paintings

Frans HALS

Buffoon with a Lute
Paintings

Gerrit van HONTHORST

Concert on a Balcony

1624
Near Eastern Antiquities

Mosaic of a woman playing the harp

Sassanid period, 2nd century AD

Floor of the iwan, "palace" of...
Prints and Drawings

Mattia PRETI (Taverna, 1613-Valletta, 1699)

Musicians around a Table

Circa 1630-40
Prints and Drawings

Giuseppe CADES(Rome, 1750-99)

Orpheus Charming the Animals

1780
Egyptian Antiquities

Pair of clappers

New Kingdom, 1550-1295 BC
Near Eastern Antiquities

Plaque with a harpist

Circa 2000 BC

Eshnunna (Mesopotamia)
Paintings

Domenico ZAMPIERI, known as DOMENICHINO

Saint Cecilia with an angel...

c. 1617-18
Egyptian Antiquities

Sistreum of Henuttawy, a chantress...

Twenty-First or Twenty-Second Dynasty, c. 1069-664 BC

Region of Thebes