Databases

Each Department of the Louvre Museum possesses a computerised database that includes information on each work of art and which allows the curators to manage their collections. These databases, with an exclusively scientific character, are internal working tools of the departments, and are only accessible to researchers upon prior request.

• Department of Prints and Drawings
  
  Extensive database of 130,000 works of the Prints and Drawings Department. Digitalisation of reproductions of the works, in colour, is in process. Unix server, consultaion on Windows.
  
  You may acess, free of charge, and upon request, at the Documentation of the Prints and Drawings.
  Tel.: (33-1) 40 20 50 25 or (33-1) 40 20 51 64.

• Joconde
  
  This database includes 120,000 descriptions of drawings, prints and paintings from the VIIth century to present, of the collections of over 60 museums in France. A database with text only, on Mistral, accessible through Minitel.
  In France, through Minitel, 36 14 code Joconde

• Euphrate - Department of Oriental Antiquities
  
  This database of 7000 items include the collections of the museum covering the geographical area from the valley of the Indus to North African countries and from the Caucasus to Yemen; the chronological period covered is the end of the Paleolitic until the arrival of the Islam. On line interrogation on Texto and Mistral since 1995.
  
  Free of charge, upon request.
  Tel.: (33-1) 40 20 50 72.

• Jupiter - Department of Greek, Roman and Etruscan Antiquities
  
  Collections of Greek, Roman and Etruscan Antiquities from French museums.
  The main database can be consulted on Mistral, on Unix server, but the Louvre Museum posesses a local copy, on Windows.
  The database include 17,500 descriptions concerning the works of the Louvre Museum and some other museums;
  the 12,000 works of the department are reproduced in digitalised black and white images.
  
  Free of charge, upon request.
  Tel.: (33-1) 40 20 44 23.

• Pharaon - Department of Egyptian Antiquities.
  
  Collections of Egyptian Antiquities of the Louvre Museum and the museums of Beaune, Laon and Lille.
  The main database can be consulted on Mistral, on Unix server, but the Louvre Museum posesses a local copy, on Windows.
  37,000 descriptions, most of them illustrated by digitalised black and white images.
  
  Free of charge, upon request.
  Tel.: (33-1) 40 20 50 99.

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