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Home>Collection & Louvre Palace>Selected Works>Remarkable Enigmas
Selected Works Remarkable Enigmas
This selection features artworks that hold secrets or are enigmatic for curators. “What was the purpose of that object?”, “Who was it for?” and “What really lies behind this painting?” are just a few of the questions their peculiarities raise. And what do you think?
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Paintings
Samuel van HOOGSTRATEN
View of an Interior, or The...
between 1654 and 1662
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Near Eastern Antiquities
Unfinished kudurru
Kassite period, attributed to the reign of Melishipak...
Susa (where it had been taken as war booty in...
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Prints and Drawings
Anne-Louis Girodet de Roussy-Trioson (Montargis,...
The Trojan Horse
Between 1810-11 and 1824
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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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Egyptian Antiquities
Square of fabric illustrating...
Coptic-Arabic Period, 7th-8th century
Antinoe (?), Egypt
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Prints and Drawings
Hans BALDUNG, known as BALDUNG GRIEN(Schwäbisch Gmünd?...
Phyllis and Aristotle
1503
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Near Eastern Antiquities
Perforated stone with a coiled...
Reign of Puzur-Shushinak, c.2100 BC
Susa, Iran
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Greek, Etruscan, and Roman Antiquities
Parts of a wreath
4th-3rd centuries BC
Cyrenaica, Libya
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Decorative Arts
France - early 19th century
Pair of urns
Circa 1800
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Egyptian Antiquities
Nude Male Statuette
Naqada I period
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Egyptian Antiquities
Mummy Label
Between the second and third century AD
Akhmim?
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Near Eastern Antiquities
Model liver for divination
19th-18th century BC
Palace of Mari
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Greek, Etruscan, and Roman Antiquities
Military Diploma
AD 139
Afiq (present-day Fiq), Golan, Syria
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Near Eastern Antiquities
Male figure
Chalcolithic period (5000-3500 BC)
Safadi, Negev
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Greek, Etruscan, and Roman Antiquities
Illyrian-style Helmet
Middle of the fifth century BC
Zeitenlik (modern Stavroupolis), Macedonia
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Greek, Etruscan, and Roman Antiquities
Head of a female statue of the...
Circa 2700-2300 BC
Island of Keros (Cyclades)
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Paintings
Fontainebleau school
Gabrielle d'Estrées and One...
c. 1594
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Egyptian Antiquities
Foundation deposit from the temple...
18th Dynasty, 1479-1457 BC, reign of Hatshepsut
Luxor, West Thebes, temple of Deir el-Bahri
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Near Eastern Antiquities
Eye Idol
Chalcolithic (3300-3000 BC)
Northern Syria
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Decorative Arts
Florence
Dwarf with Snail
