Two marble sculptures by Michelangelo are in the Louvre Museum: the Dying Slave and the Rebellious Slave.
Michelangelo carved both figures between 1513 and 1516 for a design of the monumental tomb of Pope Julius II. They were intended to stand among other sculptures, but repeated revisions reduced the tomb’s scale and changed its decoration. The two slaves were ultimately left out of the finished monument.
The statues remained together after Michelangelo gave them to Roberto Strozzi around 1546. They later passed through French collections before entering the French state’s holdings during the Revolutionary period. Both are now displayed in the Louvre’s collection of Western sculpture.
A common mix-up is counting the unfinished “Prisoners” or “Slaves” in Florence’s Accademia. Those are four related sculptures that Michelangelo left incomplete. The Louvre’s pair is a separate, finished group, which is why the correct count is two.