The Musée Bonnat-Helleu is an art museum in
Bayonne
Bayonne (; eu, Baiona ; oc, label= Gascon, Baiona ; es, Bayona) is a city in Southwestern France near the Spanish border. It is a commune and one of two subprefectures in the Pyrénées-Atlantiques department, in the Nouvelle-Aquitaine re ...
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Nouvelle-Aquitaine
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, France. The museum was created in 1901 when Bayonne-born painter
Léon Bonnat
Léon Joseph Florentin Bonnat (20 June 1833 – 8 September 1922) was a French painter, Grand Officer of the Légion d'honneur and professor at the Ecole des Beaux Arts.
Early life
Bonnat was born in Bayonne, but from 1846 to 1853 he lived in M ...
gave his extensive personal collections of art – notably an exceptional drawing collection – as well as many of his paintings to the City of Bayonne. Subsequent donors enriched the collections of the Bonnat Museum with major gifts in 1936, 1989, 1997 and 2010, making its holdings one of the largest collections of art in southern France.
The "Helleu" in its name refers to
Paul César Helleu
Paul César Helleu (17 December 1859 – 23 March 1927) was a French oil painter, pastel artist, drypoint etcher, and designer, best known for his numerous portraits of beautiful society women of the '' Belle Époque''. He also conceived the cei ...
. The museum owns 181 works by Helleu, from a gift in 1989 and then a legacy in 2010 from Paulette Howard-Johnston, daughter of Helleu, and a legacy in 1997 from Ghislaine de Kermaingant.
The Museum has been closed to the public for extensive renovation since April 2011. An architectural project intended to double the size of the museum will begin in early 2018, with the objective of opening the museum at the end of 2019.
Collections
The museum holds more than 6500 works of art including one of the most important collections of Spanish and British painting in France, a collection of 19th-century French painting and one of the finest drawing cabinet in the country after that of the
Louvre
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The museum displays paintings by
El Greco
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Jusepe de Ribera
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Bartolomé Esteban Murillo
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Francisco de Goya
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Van Dyck
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Rembrandt
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Filippo Lippi
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Biography
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Giambattista Tiepolo
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Joshua Reynolds
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Thomas Lawrence
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John Constable
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J.M.W. Turner
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and numerous studies by
Rubens
Sir Peter Paul Rubens (; ; 28 June 1577 – 30 May 1640) was a Flemish artist and diplomat from the Duchy of Brabant in the Southern Netherlands (modern-day Belgium). He is considered the most influential artist of the Flemish Baroque traditio ...
. French masters of the 19th century are represented by
Boudin
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Corot
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Courbet
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David
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Degas
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Géricault,
Girodet,
Ingres
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Puvis de Chavannes
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and Bonnat himself.
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The drawing cabinet is unique in its kind outside Paris with more than 3500 works including drawings by
Le Lorrain
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Population
Personalities
* Raphaël Confiant
*Jean Bernabé
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Charles Le Brun
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Jean-Honoré Fragonard
Jean-Honoré Fragonard (; 5 April 1732
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François Boucher
François Boucher ( , ; ; 29 September 1703 – 30 May 1770) was a French painter, draughtsman and etcher, who worked in the Rococo style. Boucher is known for his idyllic and voluptuous paintings on classical themes, decorative allegories ...
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Antoine Watteau
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Hubert Robert
Hubert Robert (22 May 1733 – 15 April 1808) was a French painter in the school of Romanticism, noted especially for his landscape paintings and capricci, or semi-fictitious picturesque depictions of ruins in Italy and of France.Jean de Cayeux. ...
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Ingres
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Jacques-Louis David
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Géricault,
Delacroix Delacroix is a French surname that derives from ''de la Croix'' ("of the Cross").
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People
* Caroline Delacroix (1883–1945), French-Romanian mistress of Leopold II of Belgium
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Albrecht Dürer
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Rembrandt
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Perugino
Pietro Perugino (, ; – 1523), born Pietro Vannucci, was an Italian Renaissance painter of the Umbrian school, who developed some of the qualities that found classic expression in the High Renaissance. Raphael was his most famous pupil.
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Pisanello
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Luca Signorelli
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Domenico Ghirlandaio
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Leonardo da Vinci
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Giovanni Bellini
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Sandro Botticelli
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Raphael
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Michelangelo
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Giulio Romano
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Titian
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Parmigianino
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Correggio
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Primaticcio
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Paolo Veronese
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Federico Barocci
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Annibale Carracci
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Guercino
Giovanni Francesco Barbieri (February 8, 1591 – December 22, 1666),Miller, 1964 better known as Guercino, or il Guercino , was an Italian Baroque painter and draftsman from Cento in the Emilia region, who was active in Rome and Bologna. The vig ...
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Pietro da Cortona
Pietro da Cortona (; 1 November 1596 or 159716 May 1669) was an Italian Baroque painter and architect. Along with his contemporaries and rivals Gian Lorenzo Bernini and Francesco Borromini, he was one of the key figures in the emergence of Roman ...
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Francesco Guardi
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Giovanni Battista Piranesi
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Francisco de Goya
Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes (; ; 30 March 174616 April 1828) was a Spanish romantic painter and printmaker. He is considered the most important Spanish artist of the late 18th and early 19th centuries. His paintings, drawings, and ...
, and others.
There are also collections of decorative arts and antiques.
References
External links
Official Website
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Bonnat
Museums in Pyrénées-Atlantiques
Art museums established in 1897
1897 establishments in France
Bayonne