The Louvre welcomes rare oriental antiques from the New York Met. The works will be integrated into those of the Louvre's department of oriental antiquities.
An exhibition comparing the two collections will be open to the public from Thursday February 29. Among the nuggets on display is “one of the very rare testimonies of goldsmithing in Mesopotamia”, according to the commissioners.. Exceptional loan granted to the Louvrais for ten major works from the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.