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[Image: Baron François Gérard "Amore and Psyche" (1798) Oil, canvas 186 x 132cm Photo © RMN-Grand Palais (Musee du Louvre) Tony Querrec distributed by AMF-DNPartcom]

Painting Love in the Louvre Collections

The National Art Center, Tokyo

Finished

Artists

François Boucher, Antoine Watteau, Samuel Van Hoogstraten, Jean-Honoré Fragonard, Baron François Gérard, Ary Scheffer et al.

Love is a basic human emotion celebrated in Western art since ancient times. Mythological paintings, based on Greek and Roman myth, and genre paintings of real people in everyday life depicted the passions, desires, and sensual pleasures, as well as the anguish and sorrow, of gods and mortals deeply infatuated with someone special. In religious paintings, God’s expression of unconditional love for humanity and humanity’s love for God were symbolically expressed through subjects such as the Holy Family, the crucifixion of Jesus, and the martyrdom of the Saints.

This exhibition will show how Western artists have portrayed love in its many forms through 74 paintings carefully selected from the vast collections of the Musée du Louvre. We invite you on a tour of passionate expressions of love from the 16th century to the mid-19th century by some of Europe's preeminent painters.

Schedule

Mar 1 (Wed) 2023-Jun 12 (Mon) 2023

Opening Hours Information

Hours	10:00-18:00 Closes at 20:00 on Fridays and Saturdays.
Closed	Tuesday Open on March 21 and May 2 Closed on March 22

Fee

Adults ¥2100; University Students ¥1400; High School Students ¥1000; Junior High School Students and Under, Persons with Disability Certificates + 1 Companion free.

Website

https://www.nact.jp/english/exhibitions/2022/love_louvre/