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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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Decorative Arts
Sèvres ManufactoryJean-Claude Duplessis (circa...
"Vessel" Pot Pourri
Circa 1760
Bed chamber of Madame de Pompadour, Hôtel...
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Decorative Arts
Diamond, known as the...
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Decorative Arts
France - early 19th century
Pair of urns
Circa 1800
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Decorative Arts
Florence
Dwarf with Snail
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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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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
Cup of Phineus Group
Chalcidian black-figure cup
Archaic period, c. 530 BC
Etruria (?)
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Greek, Etruscan, and Roman Antiquities
Parts of a wreath
4th-3rd centuries BC
Cyrenaica, Libya
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Greek, Etruscan, and Roman Antiquities
Attis
1st-2nd century AD
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Greek, Etruscan, and Roman Antiquities
Military Diploma
AD 139
Afiq (present-day Fiq), Golan, Syria
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Egyptian Antiquities
Square of fabric illustrating...
Coptic-Arabic Period, 7th-8th century
Antinoe (?), Egypt
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Egyptian Antiquities
Detachable headrest
New Kingdom, 1550-1069 BC
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Egyptian Antiquities
Mummy Label
Between the second and third century AD
Akhmim?
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Egyptian Antiquities
Nude Male Statuette
Naqada I period
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Egyptian Antiquities
Cubit rod (rule) of Maya,...
New Kingdom, 18th Dynasty, reign of Tutankhamun...
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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
Perforated stone with a coiled...
Reign of Puzur-Shushinak, c.2100 BC
Susa, Iran
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Near Eastern Antiquities
Capital of a column from the...
Achaeminid Period, reign of Darius I, c. 510 BC
Tell of the Apadana, Susa, Iran
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Near Eastern Antiquities
Eye Idol
Chalcolithic (3300-3000 BC)
Northern Syria
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Near Eastern Antiquities
Male figure
Chalcolithic period (5000-3500 BC)
Safadi, Negev
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Near Eastern Antiquities
Model liver for divination
19th-18th century BC
Palace of Mari
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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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Prints and Drawings
Hans BALDUNG, known as BALDUNG GRIEN(Schwäbisch Gmünd?...
Phyllis and Aristotle
1503
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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
Fontainebleau school
Gabrielle d'Estrées and One...
c. 1594
