The Louvre in the U.S.

The Getty Villa
October 31, 2018–March 18, 2019

This exhibition explores depictions of the Underworld in the art of Greece and southern Italy and investigates how ancient Greeks envisioned what happens after death. It will contain an important amphora on loan from the Louvre depicting Herakles and Cerberus, and Dionysos with maenad and satyrs (ca. 520 BC – 510 BC).

J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles
October 30, 2018–January 27, 2019

Renaissance artists transformed the course of western art history by making the nude central to their art. Drawing inspiration from classical sculpture and the study of the live model, these artists created lifelike, vibrant, and sensual representations of the human body. Featuring more than 100 works by Leonardo da Vinci, Raphael, Michelangelo, Dürer, and others, this exhibition traces the nude’s gradual emergence over 130 years in Italy, France, Germany, and the Netherlands.

This exhibition includes Louvre loans:

The Fall of the Damned, 1468–69, Dieric Bouts, oil on panel.

Apollo and Daphnis, about 1495, Perugino (Pietro Vannucci), oil on poplar.

Combat Between Love and Chastity, 1503-5, Perugino (Pietro Vannucci), tempera on canvas.

Bard Graduate Center, New York
September 14, 2018–January 6, 2019

“Examining votive objects—often created to fulfill a vow or as a pledge and placed at a sacred space or site of communal memory—Agents of Faith: Votive Objects in Time and Place will look at the things humans choose to offer in their votive transactions and will strive to uncover the most intimate moments in the lives of humans, revealing how our dreams and hopes, as well as our fears and anxieties, find form in votive offerings.”

This exhibition includes an important loan from the Louvre of an Etruscan anatomical bust from the 3rd to 2nd century BC.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art
September 10, 2018–January 6, 2019

Co-organized between Louvre Museum and The Metropolitan Museum of Art,  for the first time since the 1963 exhibition celebrating the 100-year anniversary of his death, this event will pool over 180 artworks by the artist, including a large number of paintings: from the young artist’s big hits at the Salon of 1820 up to his final less known and mysterious religious and landscape compositions.

National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
September 9–December 31, 2018

Though best known for his landscapes, Camille Corot painted a beautiful collection of portraits which were rarely displayed during his lifetime. This exhibition will display forty-five of his portraits of women, painted between 1830 and 1870 and ranging from individual figures, nudes, and allegorical studio scenes. It includes several important loans from the Musée du Louvre, including The Lady in Blue, and Woman with a Pearl.

The Harvard Art Museums
September 6, 2018–January 6, 2019

Animal-Shaped Vessels from the Ancient World: Feasting with Gods, Heroes, and Kings brings together nearly 60 elaborate vessels of animal shape from collections in the United States and Europe. While the songs, speeches, and prayers that enlivened ancient feasts are now largely lost to us, these vessels have survived, offering a glimpse into the rich symbolism and communal practices that found expression at these gatherings.

The exhibition includes three Loans from the Louvre.