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Francisco de Zurbarán, Sainte Casilda, oil on canvas, c.1635

Louvre · 1er arrondissement

Zurbarán: 1598–1664

Now showing7 October 2026 – 25 January 2027·€22

A major retrospective of the Spanish Golden Age painter Francisco de Zurbarán, spanning his monumental monastery commissions, portraits and still lifes alongside his influence on later French avant-garde artists.

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Asher, one of Jacob's twelve sons, stands life-size in a costume that Julian Bell describes as mixing South Asian silk with imagery from the New World. He is one of thirteen figures Zurbarán painted in the early 1640s. Thirteen men in a row, all dressed differently, all facing you: it's the Line 1 platform at Palais Royal at 8:30am, except these ones hold still.

This is the Louvre's stop on a retrospective shared with the National Gallery and the Art Institute of Chicago, in Hall Napoléon. About 65 paintings, around 51 by Zurbarán, run through seven sections, from monastery commissions to portraits and still lifes, ending with Manet, Picasso and Juan Gris. Reviewing the London showing, Bell called the five still lifes "miraculous" and found the mythological paintings "thinly imagined".

The museum gives 1 hour 15 minutes. Tickets are €22 for EEA residents and €32 for others, free for under-18s. The audio guide is a free app at zurbaran.louvre.fr, so bring headphones.

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A full retrospective of the Spanish Golden Age painter: monastery commissions, portraits and still lifes, hung alongside the later French avant-garde artists he influenced.

Look for

  • Jacob and His Twelve Sons

    Thirteen life-size men in a row, each in a different costume, Asher's mixing South Asian silk with New World imagery.

  • Agnus Dei

    A lamb with bound legs lying on a ledge, its wool painted so closely that Bell singles out the texture.

  • The Crucifixion (1627)

    A life-size Christ against solid black, so three-dimensional that it startled Seville, Bell writes.

  • The still lifes

    Five of them, with objects lit out of darkness into bright rounded shapes, which Bell calls miraculous.

Good for

  • Evening Visits
  • Going Solo
  • Nerding Out

About 75 min

Skip if

You want a light afternoon: most of it is monastery commissions and crucifixion scenes.

With kids

Free for under-18s. The audio app is in French, English and Spanish.

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