Happy Valentine's Day! LACMA is closed to the public on Wednesdays, but we're sharing some of our favorite romantic highlights from the museum's collection today. We hope you feel the love! If you're looking to spend a day filled with art and culture with your sweetheart, you can come explore our current exhibitions together any other day this week.
Guido Reni, Bacchus and Ariadne, c. 16–1620, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, gift of The Ahmanson Foundation, photo © Museum Associates/LACMA
Elaine Lustig Cohen, On Love, 1957, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, gift of Tamar Cohen, cover design © Estate of Elaine Lustig Cohen, photo © Museum Associates/LACMA
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Love scene, 1908, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, The Robert Gore Rifkind Center for German Expressionist Studies, photo © Museum Associates/LACMA
Robert Mapplethorpe, Two Men Dancing, 1984, promised gift of The Robert Mapplethorpe Foundation to The J. Paul Getty Trust and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, © Robert Mapplethorpe Foundation
Seated Embracing Couple, Colima, 300 BCE–300 CE, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, gift of Ann Ziff, photo © Museum Associates/LACMA
Adriaen van Ostade, Village Romance, 1667, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, gift of Mrs. Mary B. Regan, photo © Museum Associates/LACMA
Tsukioka Yoshitoshi, A Couple Enjoying the Flowering Evening Face Arbor, 1886, September, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Herbert R. Cole Collection, photo © Museum Associates/LACMA
Jean Pierre Saint-Ours, The Reunion of Cupid and Psyche, c. 1789–92, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, The Ciechanowiecki Collection, gift of The Ahmanson Foundation, photo © Museum Associates/LACMA
Noel Le Mire, The First Kiss of Love, 1773, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, photo © Museum Associates/LACMA
Lovers Embracing, Folio from an Erotic Manuscript, India, Madhya Pradesh, Malwa, c. 1660, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, gift of Diandra and Michael Douglas, photo © Museum Associates/LACMA
Otto Schubert, I love you, 1919, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, The Robert Gore Rifkind Center for German Expressionist Studies © artist or artist's estate, photo © Museum Associates/LACMA