The Met au Louvre : Near Eastern Antiquities in Dialogue | Louvre Museum

The Louvre’s Department of Near Eastern
Antiquities is hosting ten major works from New York’s Metropolitan
Museum of Art, whose Department of Ancient Near Eastern Art is currently
closed for renovation. The Louvre and The Met have created a unique
dialogue between these two collections, which is displayed in the
Louvre’s permanent galleries. These ‘special guest’ artworks from The
Met, dating from between the late 4th millennium BC and the 5th century
AD, show some remarkable connections with the Louvre’s collection. In
some cases, a pair of objects has been reunited for the first time,
while in others, pieces complement each other by virtue of specific
historical features of their respective collections. Representing
Central Asia, Syria, Iran and Mesopotamia, this dialogue between
collections is (re)introducing visitors to these extraordinary, age-old
works of art and the stories they tell.