Louvre Abu Dhabi starts acquiring photography to line it’s still-incomplete walls

- Sep 15, 2012 12:42 am

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Abu Dhabi’s brand extension of France’s most prestigious museum is busy snapping up great works of art — it’s only borrowing the Louvre’s name — prior to its highly anticipated opening in 2015.

— Jason Clampet

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The Louvre Abu Dhabi has started collecting photography, making its first acquisitions in the field, including a daguerreotype by Joseph-Philibert Girault de Prangey showing a veiled woman, Ayoucha, around 1843. The work is among the latest round of acquisitions announced by the Abu Dhabi Tourism and Culture Authority, which is overseeing the museum project.