Mask from a coffin, New Kingdom, 18th Dynasty, reign of Amenhotep III (1391-1353 BC), excavated in Egypt/ Photo © RMN-Grand Palais (musée du Louvre) / Franck Raux /distributed by AMF-DNPartcom

Portrait of a Woman, late 2nd century, excavated in Thebes (?), Egypt/ Photo © Musée du Louvre, Dist. RMN-Grand Palais / Georges Poncet /distributed by AMF-DNPartcom

"Boscoreale Treasure: Emblem-shaped Cup" circa 35-40, excavated in Boscoreale, Italy/ Photo © RMN-Grand Palais (musée du Louvre) / Hervé Lewandowski /distributed by AMF-DNPartcom

"Head of a Woman" 150-250, excavated in Palmyra, Syria/ Photo © RMN-Grand Palais (musée du Louvre) / Hervé Lewandowski /distributed by AMF-DNPartcom

Jacques-Louis David and his workshop "The Death of Marat" c. 1794/ Photo © RMN-Grand Palais (musée du Louvre) / Martine Beck-Coppola /distributed by AMF-DNPartcom

"Head of King Hammurabi", commonly known as "Head of King Hammurabi", Babylonian 1st Dynasty, c. 1840 BC, excavated in Susa, Iran/ Photo © Musée du Louvre, Dist. RMN-Grand Palais / Raphaël Chipault /distributed by AMF-DNPartcom

Portrait of Alexander the Great, commonly known as the Azara Hermetic Pillar, first half of the 2nd century, produced in Italy based on the original by Lysippos (c. 340-330 BC), excavated in Tivoli, Italy/ Photo © Musée du Louvre, Dist. RMN-Grand Palais / Daniel Lebée / Carine Déambrosis /distributed by AMF-DNPartcom

Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, Portrait of Ferdinand Philippe de Bourbon-Orléans, Dauphin of France, Duke of Orléans, 1842/ Photo © Musée du Louvre, Dist. RMN-Grand Palais / Angèle Dequier /distributed by AMF-DNPartcom

Antoine-Jean Gros, Bonaparte at the Pont d'Arcore (November 17, 1796), 1796/ Photo © RMN-Grand Palais (musée du Louvre) / Hervé Lewandowski /distributed by AMF-DNPartcom

Claude Lamé, Napoleon I in Coronation Robe, 1813/ Photo © RMN-Grand Palais (musée du Louvre) / Michel Urtado /distributed by AMF-DNPartcom

Francesco Antommarchi, Death Mask of Napoleon I, 1833/ Photo © Musée du Louvre, Dist. RMN-Grand Palais / Pierre Philibert /distributed by AMF-DNPartcom

Royal Porcelain Manufacture of Sèvres (based on an original by Louis-Simon Boizot) Bust of Marie-Antoinette, Queen of France, 1782/ Photo © Musée du Louvre, Dist. RMN-Grand Palais / Peter Harholdt /distributed by AMF-DNPartcom

Royal Porcelain Manufacture of Sèvres, "King's Snuff Box", 1819-1820, Marie-Victoire Jacothe, "48 Miniatures for the King's Snuff Box", 1818-1836/ Photo © RMN-Grand Palais (musée du Louvre) / Droits réservés /distributed by AMF-DNPartcom

Sandro Botticelli and his workshop Portrait of a young man in a red cap, c. 1480-1490/ Photo © RMN-Grand Palais (musée du Louvre) / Michel Urtado /distributed by AMF-DNPartcom

Rembrandt Harmenszt van Rijn, Venus and Cupid, c. 1657/ Photo © RMN-Grand Palais (musée du Louvre) / Tony Querrec /distributed by AMF-DNPartcom

Veronese (real name Paolo Cagliari), Portrait of a Woman, commonly known as The Beautiful Nani, c. 1560/ Photo © RMN-Grand Palais (musée du Louvre) / Michel Urtado /distributed by AMF-DNPartcom

Elisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun, Portrait of Countess Catherine Vasilievna Skavronsky, 1796/ Photo © RMN-Grand Palais (musée du Louvre) / Michel Urtado /distributed by AMF-DNPartcom

Francisco de Goya y Lucientes, Portrait of Luis Maria de Cistue y Martínez, 2nd Baron of Menglana, 1791/ Photo © Musée du Louvre, Dist. RMN-Grand Palais / Philippe Fuzeau /distributed by AMF-DNPartcom

Franz Xaver Messerschmidt, Head of Character, 1771-1783/ Photo © Musée du Louvre, Dist. RMN-Grand Palais / Pierre Philibert /distributed by AMF-DNPartcom

Giuseppe Arcimboldo "Spring" 1573/ Photo © RMN-Grand Palais (musée du Louvre) / Jean-Gilles Berizzi /distributed by AMF-DNPartcom