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1797 In Art
Events from the year 1797 in art. Events * Musée des Beaux-Arts d'Orléans established in France. Works * Caspar David Friedrich – ''commons:Image:LandscapewithTempleinRuin1797.jpg, Landscape with Temple in Ruins'' * François Gérard – '':File:Baron François-Pascal-Simon Gérard (French, born Italy - Belisarius - Google Art Project.jpg), Belisarius'' * Francisco Goya – ''Bernardo de Iriarte (Goya), Bernardo de Iriarte'' * Anton Graff – '':File:Anton Graff Bildnis Elisa von der Recke 1797.jpg, Elisa von der Recke'' * Henry Howard (artist), Henry Howard – '':File:Anne Flaxman (née Denman) by Henry Howard.jpg, Anne Flaxman'' (approximate date) * Henry Tresham – '':File:Earlwarwicksvow large.jpg, The Earl of Warwick's Vow Previous to The Battle of Towton'' Births * January 19 – Cornelia Aletta van Hulst, Dutch painter (died 1870 in art, 1870) * April 5 – Johann Fischbach, Austrian painter of landscapes and genre art (died 1871 in art, 1871) * May 29 – Louise-Ad ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Musée Des Beaux-Arts D'Orléans
The Musée des beaux-arts d'Orléans is a museum in the city of Orléans in the Loiret department and the Centre-Val de Loire region in France. Founded in 1797, it is one of France's oldest provincial museums. Its collections cover European arts from the 15th to 20th century. The museum owns circa 2,000 paintings (with paintings by Correggio, Annibale Carracci, Guido Reni, Sebastiano Ricci, Diego Velázquez, Anthony van Dyck, Antoine Watteau, François Boucher, Hubert Robert, Eugène Delacroix ('' Head of a Woman''), Gustave Courbet, Paul Gauguin and Pablo Picasso), 700 sculptures (Baccio Bandinelli, Auguste Rodin), more than 1,200 pieces of decorative arts, 10,000 drawings, 50,000 prints and the second largest collection of pastels in France after that of the Louvre. History The museum was founded during the French Revolution by the initiative of Jean Bardin, director of the school of drawing of the city and of Aignan-Thomas Desfriches, in 1797. The museum was installed in the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |