The Denon Prize provides support to young researchers who have undertaken a doctoral thesis in art history, archaeology or museum studies and wish to publish it.
This €12,000 annual award, established in perpetuity and financed by the Majid Boustany Fund held within the Musée du Louvre Endowment Fund, covers all costs associated with the publication.
The inaugural year of this prize will be 2025, which also marks the bicentenary of the death of Dominique-Vivant Denon.
For more information on the Denon Prize, please consult the Dominique-Vivant Denon Centre website.
By launching the Denon Prize, the first prize created within the Louvre, I would like to support in perpetuity the publications of young doctoral researchers in art history, archaeology and museum studies, and to pay a heartfelt tribute to Dominique-Vivant Denon, an outstanding figure in the history of France, who was both the first director of the Musée du Louvre under Napoleon Bonaparte and a great pioneer in museum studies and Egyptology.
Majid Boustany