Paintings : Traveling Works

Louvre - DNP Museum Lab is an experimental project exploring new approaches to artworks in the Musée du Louvre's collections, drawing on DNP’s expertise in information technology and state-of-the-art digital imaging, and public outreach expertise developed at the Louvre. From 2006 through 2009, Museum Lab proposes a series of six different presentations, each lasting around five months, in the DNP building. The theme of each presentation will also be explored in conferences and screenings as well as on the Web site of the project, museumlab.eu

This fifth presentation showcases a painting by Van Hoogstraten, The Slippers, one of the finest works in the Louvre's collection of Dutch paintings.
Visitors to the presentation have access to ICT (information and communication technology) tools designed to demonstrate Van Hoogstraten's lifelong reflection on space and fascination with the gaze; these tools help deepen the visitor’s understanding of the painting and of the ways in which the artist manipulated the viewer's gaze.