Apparently, the Louvre has lost some or all of its public funding, and now has to generate a lot of its own funding. One way to do that is to loan artworks to other museums. That is the Louvre in Atlanta exhibits came to be. The exhibits span three years. Atlanta was chosen because the people at the Louvre figured that as New York and Washington D.C. already have world class museums, there would be much more excitement generated among the hicks in Atlanta. Which is true I think. The exhibit was packed when I went.
I loved the first year's exhibits on paintings collected by Louis XIV-XVI. My favorite is the Union of Drawing and Color by Guido Reni.
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