About

Welcome to Louvre Kids.

Here, you will find:

- a series of 5 tales about Napoleon Bonaparte’s expedition to Egypt and some of the most fascinating artworks in the Louvre: the Mona Lisa, the Venus de Milo, the ‘Regent’ diamond and the Lady of Auxerre.

- a gallery of artworks, each accompanied by an illustrated story.

- four summer tales about artworks in the museum, animated by a professional storyteller.

Have fun exploring with Louvre Kids!

You can also find us at louvre.fr/en

Publishing

Musée du Louvre
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Tel.: +33 (0) 1 40 20 50 50
Publishing Director: Laurence des Cars, President-Director of the Établissement Public du Musée du Louvre

Web hosting

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Editorial management and content design

Dominique de Font-Réaulx, Director of Mediation and Cultural Programming
Maïté Labat, Head of the Digital and Audiovisual Department

Coordination team:
Didier Boucheron, Dominique Dufils, Cécile Passaquay, Sandra Verne

In collaboration with:
Benoît Deshayes, Moira-Marie Filiol, Sophie Grange, Christina Kékicheff, Laurence Roussel, Nathalie Steffen.

Camille Penman, Documentary and Editorial Resources Division

and
Goodbarber

Credits

All illustrations and images of artworks on this website featuring a signature or the ‘©’ symbol are protected by copyright law.
As public cultural information, the only images and texts that can be reused under Article 11 of French Law 78-753 of 17 July 1978 and upon authorization, as outlined below, are:
- images credited to © Musée du Louvre /… that the exclusive property of the Musée du Louvre and have been used by the Musée du Louvre with the permission of their authors or rights’ holders.
- images credited to © Musée du Louvre /… that are the exclusive property of the Musée du Louvre
- images credited to © RMN /… that are the exclusive property of the Réunion des musées nationaux (RMN)
To obtain the rights to reuse any image of the Musée du Louvre’s collections, the palace, the Louvre Tuileries estate, the Musée National Eugène-Delacroix, an exhibition or other cultural event organized by the Musée du Louvre, please contact the Photograph Agency of the RMN: agence.photo@rmn.fr [1].
[1] mailto:agence.photo@rmn.fr

Website videos

Stories and Gallery

© 2007 François Place/ Emmanuelle et Benoît de Saint-Chamas/ Les Armateurs / Musée du Louvre
Project initially managed by Marie-Claire Le Bourdellès.

François Place
Author - illustrator

Emmanuelle et Benoît de Saint-Chamas
Authors

Reciproque et Les Armateurs
Production and film-making

Alexis Victor et François Jérôme
Voices

Sally Laruelle
Translation into English

Website images

Home page

Greek, Etruscan and Roman Antiquities – Salle des Caryatides
© 1998 Musée du Louvre / Etienne Revault

Joseph Marie Vien, dit l'Aîné, Jeunes grecques parant de fleurs l'Amour endormi
© RMN - Grand Palais (Musée du Louvre) / Philippe Fuseau

Patrick Allan Fraser, Vue de la Grande Galerie au Louvre
© RMN - Grand Palais (Musée du Louvre) / Stéphane Maréchalle

Stories

Diamond, known as the ‘Regent’
© RMN - Grand Palais (musée du Louvre) / Stéphane Maréchalle

Léon Cogniet, Egytian Expedition led by Bonaparte, ceiling of the Salles Campana
1835
© 1998 Musée du Louvre / Etienne Revault

Female statue, known as the Lady of Auxerre
© RMN - Grand Palais (musée du Louvre) / Daniel Lebée et Carine Deambrosis

Leonardo da Vinci
Mona Lisa
15th century
© RMN - Grand Palais (musée du Louvre) / Michel Urtado

Aphrodite, known as the Venus de Milo
About 100 BC
© RMN - Grand Palais (musée du Louvre) / Anne Chauvet

Summer tales

Illustrated by Christine Alcouffe

Cratère à volutes, Apulie
© Musée du Louvre / Didier Boucheron

Anne Vallayer-Coster, Panaches de mer, lithophytes et coquilles
© Musée du Louvre, dist. RMN - Grand Palais / Angèle Dequier

Jean-François Millet, Les botteleurs de foin
© Musée du Louvre, dist. RMN - Grand Palais / Gérard Blot

Jacques Linard, Corbeilles de fleurs
© RMN - Grand Palais (Musée du Louvre) / Michel Urtado

Autumn tales

Illustrated by Christine Alcouffe

Théodore Rousseau, Groupe de chêne, Apremont
© RMN - Grand Palais (Musée du Louvre) / Angèle Dequier

Fleury François Richardfgt, le Petit Chaperon Rouge
© RMN - Grand Palais (Musée du Louvre) / Michel Urtado

Silène portant Dionysos enfant
© Musée du Louvre, dist. RMN - Grand Palais / Thierry Ollivier

Henri Horace Roland Delaporte, Panier d'oeufs
© Musée du Louvre, dist. RMN - Grand Palais (Musée du Louvre) / Franck Raux

Winter tales

Illustrated by Christine Alcouffe

Isaack van Ostade, Rivière gelée avec couple patinant
© RMN - Grand Palais (Musée du Louvre) / Tony Querrec

Spring tales

Illustrated by Christine Alcouffe

Gallery

Eugène Delacroix, 28 July: Liberty Leading the People (28 July 1830)
© Musée du Louvre, dist. RMN - Grand Palais / Angèle Dequier

Michelangelo Buonarroti, known as Michelangelo, Captive (‘Rebellious Slave’)
© Musée du Louvre, dist. RMN - Grand Palais / Raphaël Chipault

Hyacinthe Rigaud, Louis XIV, king of France, full-length portrait in royal costume
© RMN - Grand Palais (Musée du Louvre) / Stéphane Maréchalle

Costumes for the ballet entitled ‘Night’, performed for the Court in 1653, in which Louis XIV is shown dressed as the sun
© Source gallica.bnf.fr / Bibliothèque nationale de France