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Pierre Jahan, Ballet du Louvre, 1947
Les frères Neurdein, Salle d'Auguste, avant 1896
Pierre Jahan, Ballet du Louvre, 1947. Épreuve argentique.1 / 5

Group exhibition

Louvre Photo

Musée du Louvre

Nov 4, 2026 – May 3, 2027

Opening soon

Fri, Nov 13Talk, "Présentation de l’exposition « Louvre Photo »", with curators Dominique de Font-Réaulx and Quentin Bajac, 12:30 pm

Thu, Nov 19Curator-led tour with Dominique de Font-Réaulx and Quentin Bajac, 11:30 am

Sat, Dec 5Tour in French Sign Language with a deaf-signing guide, 10 am

Wed, Jan 27Symposium, "Musée / Photographie"

Wed, Jan 27Talk, "Les musées fantômes de la photographie", with art and photography historian Eléonore Challine, 7 pm

More than 300 photographs of the Louvre itself, its galleries, works, visitors, staff and backstage spaces, from photography’s first decades to today.

Pictures come from the Louvre’s own photographic holdings and from French archives and museums, over a period that takes in the Commune, the wartime evacuations of the collections and the Grand Louvre works of the 1980s. Prints by Pierre Jahan, the Neurdein brothers, Auguste Léon and Barbara Klemm hang alongside work the museum has commissioned since the early 2000s, including Robert Polidori’s.

Curated by Quentin Bajac, director of the Jeu de Paume, and Dominique de Font-Réaulx; part of France’s bicentenary of photography.

Full details at louvre.fr

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