Postcard Musée du Louvre - Le Tibre, Roman marble sculpture, Paris, ca. 1910

French photographic postcard with a sepia reproduction of the ancient Roman marble sculpture "Le Tibre" (The Tiber), housed in the Musée du Louvre in Paris. The front shows the reclining figure of the river god Tiber in its full composition: the bearded god resting on a water urn, flanked by a cornucopia and a she-wolf with small figurines. The card is published by A.N. Paris under number 475 and printed in France. The reverse is blank and unused.

The Tiber sculpture in the Louvre is a Roman copy after a Hellenistic original, probably dating from the second century AD. Excavated in Rome in the sixteenth century, it has since been among the most reproduced ancient sculptures in Europe. Museum postcard series of this kind were printed in large editions around the turn of the century as mementos for visitors and as cultural ambassadors of the great French national collections.