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Pictures of the musée du Louvre in Paris by David Henry, featuring photographs of Pavillon Sully, Pavillon Denon, Pavillon Richelieu, Pavillon des Arts, the cour Napoléon, cour Carrée, the Richelieu wing, I.M. Pei’s Glass Pyramid, Porte Sully, the Pyramide Inversée, Venus de Milo, the Mona Lisa, the Grand Gallery, l’Arc du Carrousel, the Carrousel du Louvre shopping mall, the jardin des Tuileries, Saint-Germain l’Auxerrois church, the Mairie du Premier Arrondissement, and the jardin du Palais Royal. Regardez cette page en français…

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The cour Napoléon bathed in a golden sunset.

Pavillon Sully bathed in a golden sunset

 The sun came out while rain was still falling out of the sky.

La cour Napoléon between two gusts of spring weather
The pyramide du Louvre seen from the cour Carrée, just before an hour-long thunder and lightning storm.

The Louvre’s pyramid just before a storm

 Pavillon de l’Horloge, now known as the Pavillon Sully, reflected in the basins around I.M. Pei’s pyramids.

The sun sets over Pavillon Sully
Pavillon Richelieu at sunset.

The central portion of the mansard roof of the Richelieu wing of the Louvre

 A view of the main pyramid in the Louvre’s cour Napoléon from the same window, at night and during the day.

The musée du Louvre’s cour Napoléon seen at dusk
This is the main entrance to the museum.

The Louvre’s Glass Pyramid, with Pavillon Denon in the background

 The Pyramid is 70 feet (21 meters) tall.

I.M. Pei’s Pyramid in front of Pavillon Richelieu
The Louvre museum’s main entrance built as part of the bicentennial celebrations of 1989.

The main entrance to the musée du Louvre

 The Louvre Pyramid was commissioned François Mitterrand, designed by Chinese-born American architect Ieoh Ming Pei, and completed in 1989.

Pavillon Richelieu seen through the glass panes of the Louvre’s Pyramid
A female duck in front of the musée du Louvre’s glass pyramid, in the cour Napoléon.

A duck in the Louvre Museum courtyard

 Ling in her wedding gown in front of the Grande Pyramide du Louvre.

Ling Lu in front of the Great Pyramid
The Great Pyramid of the Musée du Louvre, lit up in red for a party, Tuesday April 28th, 2009.

The Louvre’s Pyramid lit up in red at night

 The sun creeping behind clouds floating behind the main entrance of the musée du Louvre.

Clouds floating behind the Grande Pyramide of the Louvre Museum
La porte des Arts, the entrance to the south side of the cour Carrée at night.

Pavillon des Arts in the cour Carrée at night

 The Sully wing of the musée du Louvre was commissioned by Louis the 14th in 1667.

Porte Sully, the western entrance to the cour Napoléon
The jardin de l’Infante, on the southwestern side of the musée du Louvre was named after the visit the infanta Marie-Anne-Victoire of Spain, engaged to King Louis the 15th in 1722.

The Louvre museum seen from quai François Mitterrand

 A seagull taking off above a fountain in the Louvre’s cour Napoléon.

A seagull above a fountain in the Louvre Museum
The Louvre Museum’s pavillon de Marsan, pavillon de Flore and pont Royal seen from across the river Seine.

The musée du Louvre seen from the musée d’Orsay

 The access hatches, through which works of art are moved in and out of the basement of the musée du Louvre, were raised one day, without anyone checking to see if anything was parked on top of them.

A cleaning truck perched on top of an access hatch at the Louvre Museum
The sun sets over the Galerie du bord de l’eau and the Guichets du Louvre, June 18th, 2007.

A sunset over the musée du Louvre, seen from pont Neuf

 Lamp posts on the north side of the Louvre Museum’s cour Napoléon. The Musée du Louvre was inaugurated on August 10th 1793 with an exhibition of 537 paintings, most of which being confiscated church and royal property.

Street lights in the Musée du Louvre’s courtyard
The bottom point of the Pyramide Inversée.

The miniature pyramid rising up from the floor of the Carrousel du Louvre shopping mall

 The pyramid does not “actually look” the way it appears in this picture… I took these with a polarizing filter that (in this case) makes the internal stress patterns of the glass visible.

The Inverted Pyramid, the Carrousel du Louvre’s skylight
The pyramid is at an intersection between food courts, fashion shops, and an underground entrance the musée du Louvre.

The Pyramide Inversée, seen from the food court

 The “Aphrodite of Melos” otherwise known as the Venus de Milo dates to about 130 BC, and was discovered in 1820 on the Aegean island of Milos.

The Venus de Milo and visitors to the Louvre gaze upon each other
Some spirits floating through the Louvre.

The cour Carrée at night, the Louvre

 It is impossible to photograph the Mona Lisa, the only thing that shows up in images is the bustling ambiance of visitors taking their pictures.

Early morning visitors swarm around the “Mona Lisa” by Leonardo da Vinci at the Louvre Museum
The musée du Louvre dates to August 10th, 1793, when the grande Galerie was opened to the public.

The Grand Gallery of the Louvre Museum

 Commissioned by Napoléon I, the Arc de Triomphe du Carrousel was built between 1806 and 1808. Its architects, Charles Percier and Pierre Fontaine, were inspired by the Arch of Constantine in Rome.

The eastern side of l’Arc du Carrousel
A spot of sun on a park chair in the jardin des Tuileries.

Autumn leaves in the jardin des Tuileries

 I saw a huge black cloud of smoke rising above the Seine.

A car burning on quai du Louvre between pont des Arts and the Louvre
An Arago Plaque embedded in a couple of paving stones of galerie de Montpensier, a balustraded walkway along the west side of the jardin du palais Royal.

An Arago Medallion next to the Comédie Française

 The Romanesque tower dates from the 12th century and the portal, the choir, and the Chapelle de la Vierge from the 13th century.

The bell tower of Saint-Germain l’Auxerrois church, next to la mairie du 1er arrondissement
Construction of the First Arrondissement’s Town Hall bell tower was started in 1858 according to plans drawn up by Théodore Ballu.

The clock on la Mairie du Premier Arrondissement’s bell tower

 Water flying from the fountain in the jardin du Palais Royal, backlit on a chilly January day.

The fountain in the jardin du Palais Royal
The statue of Jeanne d’Arc at place des Pyramides, by Emmanuel Frémiet, 1874.

The Joan of Arc statue at place des Pyramides

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