Pierre Max Rosenberg OMRI (born 13 April 1936) is a French art historian, curator, and professor.
Rosenberg is the honorary president and director of the Musée du Louvre in Paris, and since 1995, he has held the 23rd seat of the Académie Française.
Born into a Jewish family[1] in Paris, Rosenberg grew up in Lot-et-Garonne and Gironde in southwestern France.
In 1962, Rosenberg joined the Department of Paintings at the Musée du Louvre as an assistant curator.
[5][4] Throughout his career, Rosenberg has published monographs on numerous seventeenth-, eighteenth-, and nineteenth-century French artists including Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin, Jacques-Louis David, Jean-Honoré Fragonard, Laurent de La Hyre, Georges de La Tour, the Le Nain brothers, Jean-François Pierre Peyron, Nicolas Poussin, and Jean-Antoine Watteau.