The Louvre will loan roughly 70 artworks to Japan next year for a special exhibition featuring 17th-century paintings, the Daily Yomiuri reports. The exhibition, titled "The Louvre Museum Exhibition: 17th Century European Masterpieces," will be held at the National Museum of Western Art in Tokyo and the Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art.

Nippon Network Television Corporation (NTV) executive chairman and representative director Seiichiro Ujiie and Louvre director Henri Loyrette signed an agreement Wednesday, putting in place the show that will be part of a series of events celebrating the 50th anniversary of the National Museum of Western Art and the 55th anniversary of the NTV.

Works to be loaned include Vermeer's The Lacemaker, a self-portrait by Rembrandt, Poussin's The Finding of Moses, and Ixion, King of Lapiths, Deceived by Juno, by Rubens.

The exhibition, the largest of Louvre-held, 17th-century art ever shown in Japan, will run at the National Museum from February 28 to June 14 and the Kyoto museum from June 30 to September 27.