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The Musée des Beaux-Arts de Nîmes () is the fine arts museum of
Nîmes.
Site
It was founded in 1821 and originally housed in the
Maison Carrée
Maison (French for "house") may refer to:
People
* Edna Maison (1892–1946), American silent-film actress
* Jérémy Maison (born 1993), French cyclist
* Leonard Maison, New York state senator 1834–1837
* Nicolas Joseph Maison (1771–1840), Ma ...
. Since 1907 it has been housed in a building designed by the architect Max Raphel in Square de la Mandragore on rue de la Cité Foulc. The Maison Carrée soon became too small and an architectural competition was organised in 1902 for a new building. This was won by Max Raphel and work began in 1903, being completed in 1907. It was renovated by the architect
Jean-Michel Wilmotte
Jean-Michel Wilmotte (born 1948 in Soissons) is a French architect.
Biography
Jean-Michel Wilmotte studied interior design at the Camondo school of interior design in Paris. Just two years after graduating, he founded his own agency in Paris in ...
in 1987
Collections
![DelarocheCromwell](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d6/DelarocheCromwell.jpg)
The original collection was gathered from private collections in 1824 and was mainly made up of Roman antiquities, old master paintings and modern paintings. It was later enriched by legacies such as those of Robert Gower in 1869 and of Charles Tur in 1948 and gifts by professional and amateur artists. The collection now includes 3,600 works. In a lower 3-room gallery are Italian paintings by
Jacopo Bassano
Jacopo Bassano (c. 1510 – 14 February 1592), known also as Jacopo dal Ponte, was an Italian painter who was born and died in Bassano del Grappa near Venice, and took the village as his surname. Trained in the workshop of his father, Francesco t ...
(1515–1592),
Lelio Orsi
Lelio Orsi (1508/1511 – 1587), also known as Lelio da Novellara, was a Mannerist painter and architect of the Reggio Emilia school in northern Italy.
He was born and died in Novellara, and much of his work was completed in Reggio. He appear ...
(1511–1587) and
Andrea della Robbia (1435–1525) among others. In the seven rooms of the upper gallery are Flemish and Dutch paintings of the 16th and 17th centuries (
Rubens,
Carel Fabritius,
Pieter Coecke van Aelst (1502–1550),
Leonaert Bramer) and French paintings by Renaud Levieux,
Jean-François de Troy,
Pierre Subleyras and
Paul Delaroche
Hippolyte-Paul Delaroche (17 July 1797 – 4 November 1856) was a French painter who achieved his greater successes painting historical scenes. He became famous in Europe for his melodramatic depictions that often portrayed subjects from English ...
's ''
Oliver Cromwell
Oliver Cromwell (25 April 15993 September 1658) was an English politician and military officer who is widely regarded as one of the most important statesmen in English history. He came to prominence during the 1639 to 1651 Wars of the Three K ...
with the corpse of
Charles I Charles I may refer to:
Kings and emperors
* Charlemagne (742–814), numbered Charles I in the lists of Holy Roman Emperors and French kings
* Charles I of Anjou (1226–1285), also king of Albania, Jerusalem, Naples and Sicily
* Charles I of ...
''. They also house paintings by the Nîmes-born artists
Charles-Joseph Natoire and
Xavier Sigalon.
External links
Musée des Beaux-Arts on the site of the ville de Nîmes
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Buildings and structures in Nîmes
Nîmes
Museums in Gard
Art museums established in 1821
1821 establishments in France