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The National Museum of Fine Arts in Algiers (french: Musée national des Beaux-Arts d'Alger) is one of the largest art museums in
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. Opened to the public since 5 May 1930, it is located in the
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district, next to the Hamma test garden. The museum, with its 8,000 works, includes paintings, drawings, engravings and old prints, sculptures, old furniture and decorative art, ceramics, glassware, as well as a numismatic collection. Among the works on display are paintings by Dutch and French masters such as Brugghen, Van Uyttenbroeck, Van Goyen,
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Matisse Henri Émile Benoît Matisse (; 31 December 1869 – 3 November 1954) was a French visual artist, known for both his use of colour and his fluid and original draughtsmanship. He was a draughtsman, printmaker, and sculptor, but is known prima ...
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Renoir Pierre-Auguste Renoir (; 25 February 1841 – 3 December 1919) was a French artist who was a leading painter in the development of the Impressionist style. As a celebrator of beauty and especially feminine sensuality, it has been said that "Re ...
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Gauguin Eugène Henri Paul Gauguin (, ; ; 7 June 1848 – 8 May 1903) was a French Post-Impressionist artist. Unappreciated until after his death, Gauguin is now recognized for his experimental use of colour and Synthetism, Synthetist style that were d ...
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. But also emblematic Algerian artists, such as Baya, Yellès and Racim. The museum houses sculptures by
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, Bourdelle and Belmondo. On 14 May 1962 over 300 works of art were brought to the Louvre in Paris from the Museum.


National Museum of Fine Arts of Algiers and Algerian Independence

The Museum of Fine Arts came under threat as independence approached. As part of their campaign of destabilization, on 26 November 1961
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(OAS) commandos bombed a statue by Antoine BourdelleBellisari, Andrew. 2016. The art of decolonization: The battle for Algeria’s french art, 1962–70. Journal of Contemporary History (January 1). in the courtyard of the museum causing damage to the museum's first floor as well as the statue. Additionally there was a fear among French cultural authorities that strict Islamists would take offense to nudes kept in the museum and/or that post-independence rioting and looting would affect the museum. French authorities saw the immediate danger posed by the OAS and apparent danger of anarchy (the museum experienced a peaceful transition) as a reason to move the works of art in secret, under military escort first to Marseille and finally to the Louvre in Paris. The works were valued at the time to be worth, in today's dollars $50 million. However, despite close ties with the museum, no cultural representatives of the FLN, or indeed workers at the museum were informed of the transfer when it occurred and only discovered the missing pieces when they found empty frames. When the missing works were discovered the Fine Arts Museums director, Jean de Maisonseul informed the French. This shipment included works by such artists as Monet, Delacroix and Courbet. The negotiations over returning the art, and whether it should indeed be returned to Algeria were a contentious issue in France and a cause of outrage in Algeria. Under the Evian accords of March 1962 it was agreed that all institutions and infrastructure which had under colonial administration been financed by the autonomous colonial administration in Algeria would remain under the control of the Algerian State. The argument of the Algerian negotiators for this technicality was that these institutions, museums included had been financed from the resources produced by the Algerian land and its people. Both the head of the Louvre and of the curator of the Museum of Fine Arts (who remained the same as under French administration) worked to bring the works back under Algerian control. The Director of France's museums Henri Seyrig argued that returning the work, in accord with the Evian Agreements would continue to remind Algerians of their ties to France and would follow a foreign policy brief stating an intention to "foster the most extensive audience for our culture" as an extension of politics by other means. while the Minister of Foreign Affairs,
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saw it as France's cultural property, and a part of its territory that must be returned. Negotiations began in May 1967 and by 1970, over the protests of the Minister Michel Debré, the works were repatriated to Algeria. Cooperation between museum officials was one of the few examples of goodwill negotiating on both sides.


Collections


Paintings

The paintings department has European paintings of 14th- to mid-20th-century paintings. They are arranged chronologically and by major schools in 35 rooms. The collection features : *Alfred Sisley, ''
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Bettina Heinen-Ayech Bettina Heinen-Ayech (3 September 1937 – 7 June 2020) was a German painter. She became known for her colorful landscape views of Algeria. Between 1955 and 2017 she had many exhibitions worldwide and won several prizes. Heinen-Ayech died on 7 J ...
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History of the museum


The beginnings

The Algiers Museum of Fine Arts was created by politicians at the end of the 19th century, during the period of French Algeria. Originally it was in the dilapidated premises of the Société des beaux-arts founded by
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in 1875 that the municipality of Algiers kept its works of art. It was not until 1897 that it acquired a real museum, devoted to the ancient and Muslim collections, even though it was housed in the buildings of a teacher training college. In 1908, a former army barracks located on the present site of the Safir Hotel was dedicated to art. It was inaugurated on 30 May 1908 and this creation had been requested for a long time because the Fine Arts room that served as a museum was very badly laid out and could not contain the works acquired by the municipality. This new municipal museum was directed until 1910 by
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, but it was dilapidated and not very functional. The quality of the museum was not sufficient, so much so that travellers and the people of Algiers disdained and ignored the so-called "municipal" museum, which was located in an unfavourable, dilapidated, not very accessible place, even more poorly surrounded than poorly lit. Thus, the municipal museum of Algiers closed its doors after twenty years of operation between 1908 and 1928. A national museum of fine arts took over its collection, enriching it with new acquisitions.


The birth of the Musée des Beaux-Arts

With the opening of the "Villa Abd-el-Tif", a real need in this field is felt and the project is entrusted to a little known architect, Paul Guion. The site is chosen, in Hamma, opposite the Jardin d'essai and not far from the Abd-el-Tif villa, on the hill of the wild boars. Paul Guion opted for a symmetrical and rectilinear monumentalism whose architectural elements drawn from Mediterranean art were to be echoed in the admirable furniture designed and drawn by Louis Fernez, a professor at the National School of Fine Arts in Algiers, some of whose pieces were commissioned from the designer Francis Jourdain. Begun in 1928, the work was quickly completed, thanks to credits that were generously granted. The architecture of the museum was much admired for its ideal location and its style of combining "past and present". This architectural style symbolises the construction of the image of a young and modern country, but also one that is mindful of its traditions. The immense size of the new museum is worthy of consideration: thirty-five painting rooms, a sculpture gallery, a casting gallery, a library and a print room. The building is divided into three floors: on the ground floor is the moulding room, on the first floor the modern sculpture room and on the upper floor the painting galleries. The Algiers Fine Arts Museum, inaugurated on 5 May 1930, was not opened to the public until April 1931. It was the centenary of Algeria that promoted this project of the National Museum of Fine Arts in Algiers. Celebrating its colonies, celebrating its victories in the Great War, the France of the Third Republic could not ignore the first centenary of its presence in Algeria. Prepared as early as 1923 under the aegis of the governor, General Steeg, a magnificent prelude to the Vincennes Exhibition was set up by a law of 1928 which created a High Council and a General Commission for the Centenary. The aim was to show what France had achieved in Algeria since its installation, the results obtained and the progress made. A budget originally set at 134 million was reduced to 82 million and in metropolitan France, all the goodwill was put into spreading the good word of French Algeria. Among these festive activities, the museum projects were promoted most considerably; alongside the great commemorative monuments, the Fine Arts Museum, the Bardo Museum, the Forestry Museum and the Franchet d'Espérey Museum in Algiers (historical museum of the Army and military festivals, installed in the military premises of the Casbah, not far from the first ramparts of Algiers) were also inaugurated. In contrast to the other recently inaugurated museums, the structures and status of the Musée des Beaux-Arts are being revised with new missions.


Acquisitions and donations

Since this museum became national, it has been considerably enriched. The credits granted to it during the celebration of the Centenary of Algeria have enabled it to make many important purchases. By sending the old collections of the Municipal Museum to Constantine for the inauguration of its Museum of Fine Arts, the collections for the new National Museum of Algiers began to be constituted as early as 1927; it was the art historian Jean Alazard, then dean of the Faculty of Letters of Algiers, who was entrusted with this mission. On Alazard's proposal, a special commission chaired by
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and whose main members were Mouillé, deputy director of the Beaux-Arts, Jean Guiffrey and Paul Jamot, curators of the Louvre, Raymond Kœchlin, president of the Conseil des musées nationaux, and Charles Masson and Robert Rey, curators of the Luxembourg Museum, decided on the definitive purchase. Unprecedented in the museum's history, the funds allocated for the Centennial Exhibition allowed for the acquisition of 498 works in two years: eclectic acquisitions that gave pride of place to contemporary sculpture and the great names in art history. The Museum of Fine Arts soon enjoyed a great deal of influence, enhanced by donations and wise purchases. The care and skill with which all these purchases were made can be seen. They consist of masterpieces by the great orientalists such as
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Eugène Delacroix Ferdinand Victor Eugène Delacroix ( , ; 26 April 1798 – 13 August 1863) was a French Romantic artist regarded from the outset of his career as the leader of the French Romantic school.Noon, Patrick, et al., ''Crossing the Channel: Britis ...
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Eugène Fromentin Eugène Fromentin (24 October 182027 August 1876) was a French painter and writer, now better remembered for his writings. Life He was born in La Rochelle. After leaving school he studied for some years under Louis Cabat, the landscape painter. ...
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and the most famous representatives of modern art:
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Théodore Rousseau Étienne Pierre Théodore Rousseau (April 15, 1812December 22, 1867) was a French painter of the Barbizon school. Life Youth He was born in Paris, France in a bourgeois family. At first he received a basic level of training, but soon displaye ...
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Camille Pissarro Jacob Abraham Camille Pissarro ( , ; 10 July 1830 – 13 November 1903) was a Danish-French Impressionist and Neo-Impressionist painter born on the island of Saint Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands, St Thomas (now in the US Virgin Islands, but t ...
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Edgar Degas Edgar Degas (, ; born Hilaire-Germain-Edgar De Gas, ; 19 July 183427 September 1917) was a French Impressionist artist famous for his pastel drawings and oil paintings. Degas also produced bronze sculptures, prints and drawings. Degas is es ...
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Eugène Boudin Eugène Louis Boudin (; 12 July 18248 August 1898) was one of the first French landscape painters to paint outdoors. Boudin was a marine painter, and expert in the rendering of all that goes upon the sea and along its shores. His pastels, summa ...
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Auguste Renoir Pierre-Auguste Renoir (; 25 February 1841 – 3 December 1919) was a French artist who was a leading painter in the development of the Impressionist style. As a celebrator of beauty and especially feminine sensuality, it has been said that " ...
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Alfred Sisley Alfred Sisley (; ; 30 October 1839 – 29 January 1899) was an Impressionist landscape painter who was born and spent most of his life in France, but retained British citizenship. He was the most consistent of the Impressionists in his dedicatio ...
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Armand Guillaumin Armand Guillaumin (; February 16, 1841 – June 26, 1927) was a French impressionist painter and lithographer. Biography Early years Born Jean-Baptiste Armand Guillaumin in Paris, he worked at his uncle's lingerie shop while attending eveni ...
and even more contemporary artists such as
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Suzanne Valadon Suzanne Valadon (23 September 18657 April 1938) was a French painter who was born Marie-Clémentine Valadon at Bessines-sur-Gartempe, Haute-Vienne, France. In 1894, Valadon became the first woman painter admitted to the Société Nationale des ...
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Maurice Denis Maurice Denis (; 25 November 1870 – 13 November 1943) was a French painter, decorative artist, and writer. An important figure in the transitional period between impressionism and modern art, he is associated with '' Les Nabis'', symbolism, a ...
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Henri Matisse Henri Émile Benoît Matisse (; 31 December 1869 – 3 November 1954) was a French visual artist, known for both his use of colour and his fluid and original draughtsmanship. He was a draughtsman, printmaker, and sculptor, but is known prima ...
. The museum's early catalogues demonstrate the height of French art at the time and reflect the institution's aim to disseminate French art and culture. The fact that there was a historical section with beautiful deposits from the museum in Versailles demonstrates the didactic and patriotic character of the museum. The role of local collectors cannot be overlooked in the development of the collection. In addition to new acquisitions, the museum has also received numerous donations. Donors included former patrons such as Marius de Buzon or
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, great settlers such as Lucien Borgeaud, industrialists such as the painter Louis Billiard, or an amateur such as Laurent Schiaffino. Among them, the famous Frédéric Lung owed his reputation not only to his early interest in the painters of the Villa Abd el-Tif but also to the rich collection of modern and impressionist works that he built up. His widow bequeathed some pieces to the Algiers Museum of Fine Arts, in particular
Charles Despiau Charles Despiau (November 4, 1874 – October 28, 1946) was a French sculptor. Early life Charles-Albert Despiau was born at Mont-de-Marsan, Landes and attended first the École des Arts Décoratifs and later the École nationale supérieure de ...
's studio plaster, L'Homme prêt à l'action. All the former residents of the Villa Abd-el-Tif were widely represented, either grouped together in special rooms or spread throughout the galleries. These representations allowed visitors to follow the evolution of the main artists who were originally from Algiers or who had been living there for a long time. From 1930 to 1960, three major acquisition periods provided the museum with an invaluable collection. Some will also make their entry to the museum at this period: Azouaou Mammeri,
Mohammed Racim Mohammed Racim ( ar, محمد راسم, 24 June 189630 March 1975) was an Algerian artist who founded the Algerian School for Miniature Painting with his brother, Omar. It still exists to this day.. Biography Racim was born in The Casbah of A ...
, Mohamed Temmam,
Bachir Yellès Bachir Yellès (; 12 September 1921 – 16 August 2022) was an Algerian painter. Life and career Yellès was born in Tlemcen on 12 September 1921.Bloom and Blair, p50 "Bachir Yelles (b. 1921) and Muhammad Bouzid (b. 1929) explored Cubism, Fauvis ...
(1949), Abdelhalim Hemche. In this Europeanised Algiers, the Musée des Beaux-Arts functioned as an institution where cultured people did not feel out of place, but its atmosphere, which was subject to local particularities, also made it possible to detach oneself from the metropolis. The museum was much more admired by the elite than it was by the crowd. In contrast to the great museums of the metropolis, which also served as an educational field for students of fine arts, the students of the Algiers School of Fine Arts visited the museum's painting and sculpture rooms less often. This was probably due to the distance of the museum from the city centre, but it also explains why the museum may not have had the same objectives as the museums in the metropolis.


Le Musée des Beaux-Arts at the time of Algeria's independence

As the museum was attacked by the
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on the eve of independence, some three hundred of its works were transferred to Paris in April 1962 and deposited in the
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. Jean de Maisonseul, appointed in November 1962 as curator of the museum (which became the Musée National des Beaux-Arts d'Alger) under the heading of cooperation, at the request of the Algerian Ministry of National Education, ensured the reopening of the museum in July 1963 and led lengthy negotiations that culminated in December 1968 in the restitution of the 157 paintings and 136 drawings - "even though from the outset
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, then Minister of Culture, recognised that these works belonged to Algeria", he would specify. Maisonseul, curator until 1970, simultaneously undertook through his acquisition policy to remedy the poverty of the Algerian art collection, introducing works by Baya, Benanteur, Guermaz, Khadda, Martinez and
Bettina Heinen-Ayech Bettina Heinen-Ayech (3 September 1937 – 7 June 2020) was a German painter. She became known for her colorful landscape views of Algeria. Between 1955 and 2017 she had many exhibitions worldwide and won several prizes. Heinen-Ayech died on 7 J ...
to the museum. An important group of contemporary art works donated by the States when Algeria gained independence will be added.


Collections of paintings


European art

The 14th, 15th and 16th centuries are represented by works in which two major currents are evident: the Italian school and the northern, Dutch and Flemish school. The 17th and 18th centuries are represented by the French, Italian and Dutch schools. The 19th and 20th centuries are exclusively French. Here are some of the most representative works.


German art

Non-exhaustive list * Bartholomaeus Bruyn the Elder (1493-1555), Portrait of a Woman * Bartholomaeus Bruyn the Younger (1530-1607), Portrait of a Woman *
Hans Rottenhammer Johann Rottenhammer, or Hans Rottenhammer (1564 – 14 August 1625), was a German painter. He specialized in highly finished paintings on a small scale. Biography He was born in Munich, where he studied until 1588 under Hans Donauer the Eld ...
(1564-1625), Diana and Calypso.


Swiss Art

Non-exhaustive list *
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(1400-1445/46), Nativité. *
Achille Koetschet Achille is a French and Italian masculine given name, derived from the Greek mythological hero Achilles. It may refer to: People Artists * Achille Beltrame (1871–1945), Italian painter * Achille Calici (c. 1565–?), Italian painter * Ach ...
(1862-1895). *
Édouard Herzig Édouard Herzig (23 December 1860 – 3 October 1926) was a Swiss painter, drawer and illustrator who lived in French Algeria. He did paintings of Kabylie. He also drew arabesque The arabesque is a form of artistic decoration consisting of "s ...
(1860-1926).


Spanish art

Non-exhaustive list *
Alonso Cano Alonso Cano Almansa or Alonzo Cano (19 March 16013 September 1667) was a Spanish painter, architect, and sculptor born in Granada.Angel Diaz-Ojeda (1886-1968). * Joseph Sintès (1829-1913), In the
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Dutch art

Non-exhaustive list * Jan van Dael (1764-1840), ''Still Life of Flowers in a Vase'' *
Hendrick ter Brugghen Hendrick Jansz ter Brugghen (or Terbrugghen) (1588 – 1 November 1629) was a Dutch painter of genre scenes and religious subjects. He was one of the Dutch followers of Caravaggio – the so-called ''Utrecht Caravaggisti''. Along with Gerrit va ...
(1588-1629), ''Un chanteur s'accompagnant au luth'' * Moses van Uyttenbroeck (1600-1646) *
Jan Van Goyen Jan Josephszoon van Goyen (; 13 January 1596 – 27 April 1656) was a Dutch landscape painter. The scope of his landscape subjects was very broad as he painted forest landscapesm marines, river landscapes, beach scenes, winter landscape, cityscap ...
(1596-1656)


Flemish art

Non-exhaustive list *
Elias Vonck Elias Vonck (1605, Amsterdam – 1652, Amsterdam), was a Dutch Golden Age painter. Biography According to the RKD he worked in Poland 1631-1639, where son Jan was born.
(1605-1652) *
Jacob Grimmer Jacob Grimmer (1526/26 – before May 1590) was a Flemish landscape painter and draughtsman. His rural scenes and landscapes of views around Antwerp marked an important development in 16th century Flemish landscape painting away from the world l ...
(1525-1590) * Theobald Michau (1676-1765) *
Rembrandt Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn (, ; 15 July 1606 – 4 October 1669), usually simply known as Rembrandt, was a Dutch Golden Age painter, printmaker and draughtsman. An innovative and prolific master in three media, he is generally consid ...
(1606-1669)


Italian art

Non-exhaustive list * Andrea Previtali (1480-1528), Portrait of a Condottiere * Barnaba da Modena (1328-1386), Baptism of Christ (the oldest work in the museum's collection, dating from 1367) * Giuseppe Vittore Ghislandi, known as Fra Galgario (1655-1743), Portrait of a Young Girl * Giuseppe Maria Crespi, known as the Spagnolo (1665-1747), The Watering Place * Giovanni Paolo Panini (1691-1765), View of the Colosseum * Jacopo Carrucci, known as Pontormo (1494-1557), Portrait of Alexander de Medici * Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio (1571-1610), Pied Piper * Michele Marieschi (1710-1743), View of the Church of the Salute in Venice * Romanino Girolamo (1484-1566), Saint Helena discovering the True Cross * Sebastiano Ricci (1659-1734), The Virgin and Child Jesus surrounded by saints and angels.


French art

Non-exhaustive list * 15th century : ** Triptyque de l'École d'Amiens, ''Le Christ chez Marie-Madeleine''. * 16th century : ** François Clouet (1515-1572), ''Portrait du maréchal de Vieilleville''. * 17th century : ** Claude Gillot (1673-1722), ''Scène de ballet'' ** Claude Vignon (1593-1670), ''Adoration des Mages'' ** Charles de La Fosse (1636-1716), ''Neptune chassant les Vents'' ** Jean-Baptiste Pater (1695-1736), ''La Balançoire'' ** Louis Le Nain (1593-1648), ''La Fiancée normande'', ''La Repasseuse'' ** Nicolas de Largillierre (1656-1746), ''Portrait d'une femme en Diane'' ** Sébastien Bourdon (1616-1671), ''Les joueurs de tric trac'' ** Simon Vouet (1590-1649), ''David et Abigail femme de Nabal'' * 18th century : ** Antoine-Jean Gros (1771-1835), ** Alexandre-François Desportes (1661-1743), ** Claude Joseph Vernet (1714-1789), ''Bord de Mer, Effet de Brouillard'' ** Edmé Bouchardon (1698-1762), ** Jacques Louis David (1748-1825), ''Portrait de Marie-Françoise Buron'' ** Jean Siméon Chardin (1699-1779), ''La Théière blanche'' ** Jean-Baptiste Nattier (1678-1726), ''Portrait de Madame de La Poix de Fréminville'' ** Jean-Étienne Liotard (1702-1789), ''Marie-Adélaïde de France en costume d'Orientale'' ** Jean-Baptiste Hilaire (1753-1822), ''La Place de l'Hippodrome à Constantinople'' ** Jean-Baptiste Perronneau (1715-1783) ** Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot (1796-1875), deux toiles intitulées "Paysages d'Ile de France ** Louis Brion de la Tour (1743-1803), ''Portrait du duc de beaufort'' * 19th century : ** Alfred Dehodencq (1822-1882), ''Noces juives'' ** Auguste Renoir (1841-1919), ''Paysage de printemps'' ** Alfred Sisley (1839-1911), ''Le Canal du Loing en hiver'' ** Albert Lebourg (1849-1928), ''Café Maure du Hamma'', ''Rouen'' **
Berthe Morisot Berthe Marie Pauline Morisot (; January 14, 1841 – March 2, 1895) was a French painter and a member of the circle of painters in Paris who became known as the Impressionists. In 1864, Morisot exhibited for the first time in the highly es ...
(1841-1895), ** Camille Corot (1796-1875), ''Étang de Ville-d'Avray'' ** Camille Pissarro (1830-1903), ''Femme à sa fenêtre'' ** Claude Monet (1840-1926), ''Rochers de Belle-Isle'' (1886) ** Eugène Delacroix (1798-1863), ''Le Giaour traversant le gué'' - ''Lion couché'' ** Edgar Degas (1834-1917), ''Femme mettant son corset'' ** Emile Bernard (1868-1941), ''Nature morte'' ** Eugène Fromentin (1820-1876), ''Souvenir d'Algérie'' ** Étienne Dinet (1861-1929), ''Petites Filles jouant et dansant'' ** Édouard Herzig (1860-1926), ** Honoré Daumier (1808-1879), ''Les Amateurs d'estampes'' ** Hippolyte Lazerges (1817-1887), ''Le porteur d’eau'' ** Gustave Courbet (1819-1877), ''Le Vieux Pont'' ** Gustave Caillebotte (1848-1894), ''Portrait d'inconnu'' ** Georges Dufrénoy (1870-1943), ''Place des Vosges'' ** Gustave Guillaumet (1840-1887), ''Scène à Biskra'' ** Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres (1780-1867), ''Portrait au crayon de Jean-Baptiste Cortot'' ** Jean-François Millet ( 1814-1875), ''Nature morte aux navets'' ** Johan Barthold Jongkind (1819-1891), ''Le Port de Honfleur'' ** Pierre Puvis de Chavannes (1824-1898), ''Portrait de femme'' ** Paul Gauguin (1848-1903), ''Paysage de Bretagne'' ** Paul Sérusier (1864-1927), ''Nature morte'' ** Théodore Rousseau (1812-1867), ''Forêt au crépuscule'' ** Théodore Chassériau (1819-1856), ''Portrait de Rachel'', ''Portrait présumé de la marquise de Caussade'' ** Thomas Couture (1815-1879), ''Étude pour l'enrôlement des volontaires'' * 20th century: ** Albert Marquet (1875-1947), ''Place du Gouvernement à Alger'' ** André Lhote (1885-1962), ''Paysage'' ** Edouard Vuillard (1869-1940), ''Femme dans son intérieur'' ** Henri Matisse (1869-1954), ''le Jardin de Renoir à Cagnes'' ** Georges Rochegrosse (1859-1938), ''Les Trois Grâces-Nu'' - ''L'estudiantina'' - ''Jardin à El-Biar'' - ''Toits de Paris'' ** Jean Launois(1898-1942), ''Famille de gitans Farniente'', ''Famille juive'', ''Jeunes Arabes'' ** Léon Carré (1859-1938), ''Histoire d'Abou Qir et d'Abou Sir'' ** Maurice Denis (1870-1943), ''Vallée de Josephat'' ** Maurice de Vlaminck (1876-1958), ''Bouquet'' ** Maurice Utrillo (1883-1955), ''Rue de Ville-Evrard'' * École d'Alger : ** Alfred Chataud (1833-1908), ''Mauresque à la cruche'' ** Armand Assus (1892-1977), ''Rue du Chêne'', ''Le Couloir bleu'', ''Le Port de Rotterdam'', ''Le Narguilé'', ''Intérieur'', ''crayon : portrait du peintre Hacène Benaboura'' ** Étienne Dinet (1861-1929) ''Petites filles jouant et dansant'', ''Départ à la Mecque'', ''Vieilles Femmes'' , ''Raoucha'', ''L’embuscade'', ''L’aveugle'' ** Émile Claro (1897-1977), ''Rue de la Casbah d'Alger'' - et la plus importante collection au monde (quasi intégrale) des primés de la Villa Abd-el-Tif ** Jean-Aimé-Roger Durand, (1914-2001), ''Les Hangars'', ''Paysage de Guyotville'', ''Paysage La Bridja'', ''Paysage de Delly-Ibrahim'', ''Quartier perdu'' ** Joseph Sintès (1829-1913) (nombreux dessins gouaches et aquarelles), ''Le Port d'Alger'' ** Louis Bénisti (1903-1995), ''La Fête orientale'', ''Le Port d'Alger'', ''Paysage du Sahel'', ''Buste de René-Jean Clot'' ** Maurice Bouviolle (1893-1971) ''Femmes juives de Ghardaïa'', ''Mauresques d'Alger'' ** Oscar Spielmann (1902-1975), ''Mauresque riant'' File:Corneille de Lyon - Portrait d'homme - MNBA Alger.jpg, ''Portrait d'homme'',
Corneille de Lyon Corneille de Lyon (early 16th century – 8 November 1575 (buried)) was a Dutch painter of portraits who was active in Lyon, France, from 1533 until his death. In France and the Netherlands he is also still known as ''Corneille de La Haye'' ( n ...
. File:Cavalier peint en Algérie par Eugène Fromentin.jpg, ''Cavalier'',
Eugène Fromentin Eugène Fromentin (24 October 182027 August 1876) was a French painter and writer, now better remembered for his writings. Life He was born in La Rochelle. After leaving school he studied for some years under Louis Cabat, the landscape painter. ...
. File:Gauguin 1885 La Fenaison aux environs de Dieppe.jpg, ''La Fenaison aux environs de Dieppe'', 1885
Paul Gauguin Eugène Henri Paul Gauguin (, ; ; 7 June 1848 – 8 May 1903) was a French Post-Impressionist artist. Unappreciated until after his death, Gauguin is now recognized for his experimental use of colour and Synthetist style that were distinct fr ...
. File:Le Canal du Loing en hiver.jpg, '' Le Canal du Loing en hiver'', 1891
Alfred Sisley Alfred Sisley (; ; 30 October 1839 – 29 January 1899) was an Impressionist landscape painter who was born and spent most of his life in France, but retained British citizenship. He was the most consistent of the Impressionists in his dedicatio ...
. File:LeonCarré1001.jpg, Illustration of the Thousand and One Nights book - ''Histoire d'Abou Qir et d'Abou Sir''
Léon Carré Léon Georges Jean-Baptiste Carré (23 June 1878 – 2 December 1942) was a French Orientalism, Orientalist painter and illustrator, noted for illustrating the book, ''The Book of One Thousand and One Nights.'' Life and career Carré was born i ...
. File:Oeuvre de Launois.jpg, A work by Jean Launois. File:Jacques-Louis David - Portrait of Marie-Françoise Buron - WGA06039.jpg, ''Portrait de Marie-Françoise Buron'' by Jacques Louis David. File:Etienne Dinet Raoucha.jpg, ''Raoucha'', 1901, by
Étienne Dinet Nasreddine Dinet (born as Alphonse-Étienne Dinet on 28 March 1861 – 24 December 1929, Paris) was a French orientalist painter and was one of the founders of the Société des Peintres Orientalistes ociety for French Orientalist Painters He ...
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Other artists

Non-exhaustive list * Jean Simian (1910-1991), Anvil *
Léon Cauvy Léon Cauvy (12 January 1874, Montpellier – 3 January 1933, Algiers) was a French Orientalist painter. Biography He began his studies in 1890 at the local School of Fine Arts; winning several awards for his sketches and ink wash paintings ...
(1874-1933) *
Louis Nallard Louis may refer to: * Louis (coin) * Louis (given name), origin and several individuals with this name * Louis (surname) * Louis (singer), Serbian singer * HMS ''Louis'', two ships of the Royal Navy See also Derived or associated terms * Lewis (d ...
(1918-2016), Mother Algeria * Marcel Bouqueton (1921-2006) *
Maria Manton Maria Manton (1910–2003) was a French painter. Biography Maria Manton was born on 4 December 1910 in Blida, Algeria. During the German occupation of Alsace in 1870, her maternal grandparents came to settle in the outskirts of the city. A nati ...
(1910-2003) * René Sintès (1933-1962), Soir et Calme (1960)


Contemporary art

Non-exhaustive list *
Ahmed Cherkaoui Ahmed Cherkaoui (2 October 1934 - 17 August 1967) was a Moroccan painter who worked in oil, gouache, and watercolour. Education Born in Boujad, Cherkaoui studied at the École des métiers d'art and the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris, winning a ...
(1934-1967), Sacred Fire *
André Masson André-Aimé-René Masson (4 January 1896 – 28 October 1987) was a French artist. Biography Masson was born in Balagny-sur-Thérain, Oise, but when he was eight his father's work took the family first briefly to Lille and then to Brussel ...
(1896-1987), The Parlour *
Abidin Dino Abidin Dino (23 March 1913 – 7 December 1993) was a Turkish artist and a well-known painter. Early years Dino was born on 23 March 1913 in Istanbul into an art-loving family. He was grandchild of Abedin Dino, Albanian descended Ottoman dipl ...
(1913-1993), Manifestation for Peace *
Aref Rayess Aref El Rayess (or Aref Rayess) (25 October 1928 – 27 January 2005) was a Lebanese painter and sculptor. Life Born in Beirut, Aref Rayess started his career as a self-taught artist exhibiting for the first time in 1948. He lived in Africa for ...
(1928-2005), Salutation to the Martyrs of the Algerian Revolution *
Bettina Heinen-Ayech Bettina Heinen-Ayech (3 September 1937 – 7 June 2020) was a German painter. She became known for her colorful landscape views of Algeria. Between 1955 and 2017 she had many exhibitions worldwide and won several prizes. Heinen-Ayech died on 7 J ...
(1937-2020), The Arch of Thibilis, Dance of the Olive Trees, The Maouna *
Boris Taslitzky Boris Taslitzky, sometimes Boris Tazlitsky (September 30, 1911 – December 9, 2005), was a French painter with left-wing sympathies, best known for his figurative depictions of some difficult moments in the history of the twentieth century. His ...
(1911-2005), * Bernard Rancillac (1931-2021), * Bata Mihailovitch (1923-2011), * Chafik Abboud (1926-2004), * Claude Viseux (1927-2008), * Édouard Pignon (1905-1993), *
Eduardo Arroyo Eduardo Arroyo Rodríguez (26 February 1937 – 14 October 2018) was a Spanish painter, sculptor and graphic artist. He was also active as a writer and set designer. Arroyo is regarded as one of the most important exponents of politically co ...
(1937-2018), The Last Colonialist * Ernest Pignon-Ernest (1942-), *
Erró Erró (born Guðmundur Guðmundsson in 1932 in Ólafsvík, Iceland) is a visual artist and painter, who is best known for his painted pop art collages of images from comic books and advertisements.
(1932-), * Francisco Espinoza Duenas (1926-2020), * Gérard Gosselin (painter) (1933-), * Jacques Monory (1924-2018), *
Juanita Guccione Juanita Rice Marbrook Guccione (née Anita Rice; 1904–1999) was an American painter, and taxidermist. During the 1930s she changed her name from Anita to Nita, and then later to Juanita Rice. She had used her partners last name Mabrouk, but lat ...
(1904-1999), *
Jean-Jacques Lebel Jean-Jacques Lebel (born in Paris on June 30, 1936) is a French artist. His father was also a poet, translator, poetry publisher, political activist, art collector, and art historian. Besides his heterogeneous artworks and poetry, Lebel is also k ...
(1936-), * James Pichette (1920-1996), * Louay Kayali (1934-1978), *
Leonardo Cremonini Leonardo Cremonini (1925-2010) was an Italian visual artist. Life Leonardo Cremonini was the son of a railway worker who taught him the basics of painting. In 1935, his father had to relocate to Calabria for professional reasons. The Tyrrhenian ...
(1925-2010), Mass opposition in Algiers *
Mamdouh Kashlan Mamdouh Kashlan (born 1929 in Damascus) is a Syrian painter. He has held more than 300 exhibitions in Syria and around the world and many of his paintings are on display in the National museums of Damascus, Aleppo and Deir Atieh and the presiden ...
(1929-), Local aspects *
Maurice Boitel Maurice Boitel (July 31, 1919 – August 11, 2007) was a French painter. Artistic life Boitel belonged to the art movement called "La Jeune Peinture" ("Young Picture") of the School of Paris,The School of Paris (1945–1965) by Lydia Harambourg. ...
(1919-2007), L'Entrée de la villa Abd-El-Tif IG 2467 - Bateaux du port de la Meule à l'île d'Yeu IG 3758 - Nature morte IG 2454, a painting that has not been reinstated and that disappeared after having been "deposited" with a certain Madame Juillet * Nasser Assar (1928-2011), * Pierre Lafoucrière (1927-2017), *
Roberto Matta Roberto Sebastián Antonio Matta Echaurren (; November 11, 1911 – November 23, 2002), better known as Roberto Matta, was one of Chile's best-known painters and a seminal figure in 20th century abstract expressionist and surrealist art. Bio ...
(1911-2002), Cuba si Argelia también, Untitled *
Siné Maurice Sinet (; 31 December 1928 – 5 May 2016), known professionally as Siné (), was a French political cartoonist. His work is noted for its anti-capitalism, anti-clericalism, anti-colonialism, anti-semitism, and anarchism. Biography A ...
(1928-2016), * Wifredo Lam (1902-1982), The Angel


Algerian art

Non-exhaustive list * Abdelouahab Mokrani (1956-2014), ''Figures'' (1982) * Ali Ali-Khodja (1923-2010), ''Intérieur de mosquée'', ''Sortie de classe'', ''L'incertitude'' (1995) * Aïcha Haddad (1937-2005), ''Marines de Bejaia'', ''Ghardaia'' * Ahmed Kara-Ahmed (1923-2018), ''Terrasses de la Casbah'' * Abdelkader Guermaz (1919-1994), ''Rythmes abstraits'' * Abdallah Benanteur (1931-2017), ''Souffle Mouillé'' * Azouaou Mammeri (1886-1954), ''Village Kabyle'' * Abdelhalim Hemche (1908-1979), ''Assemblée de femmes et d'enfants'' * Baya (1931-1998), ''Femme au palmier'', ''Femme au bord de la rivière'' * Bachir Yellès (1921-2022), ''Buste de Femme'' * Brahim Benamira (-1974), ''Place du Gouvernement à Alger'' * Choukri Mesli (1931-2017), ''Qaïs et Leïla'', ''Retour des ancêtres'' * Denis Martinez (1941-), ''L'Enfant et l'Arbre vert'' * Farès Boukhatem (1941-), ''Les Réfugiés'' * Hacène Benaboura (1898-1960), ''l'Aqiba, rue de Cambrai''(1955), ''Le quartier de Belcourt''(1955), ''Baie d'Alger''(1957), ''Vue du port d'Alger'' * Hocine Ziani (1953-), ''Paysage de Kabylie'' (1982), ''Rue Staoueli'' (1983), ''Le Silo bleu'' (2007) * Ismail Samsom (1934-1988), ''Jeune fille au Chien'' * Lazhar Hakkar (1945-), ''Complicité'' * Layachi Hamidouche (1947-), * Leïla Ferhat (1939-2020), * M'hamed Issiakhem (1928-1985), ''Les Aveugles'', ''La Mendiante'', ''L'Algérie''(1960) (don de l'écrivain français Jacques  Arnault) * Mahieddine Boutaleb (1918-1994), ''Page de Poème'' * Malek Salah (1949-), ''Les Trois Portes'' * Miloud Boukerche (1908-1978), ''Mon atelier à Montmartre''(1950) * Mohamed Racim (1896-1975), ''Lendemain de Mariage'' * Mohamed Hamimoumna (1897-1975), ''Enluminure Mauresque'' * Mohammed Zmirli (1909-1984), ''Chemin Laperlier'' * Mohamed Temmam (1915-1988), ''Nature morte à la chandelle'' (1936), ''Pont Saint-Louis'' (1936), ''Bord de rivière'' (1938), ''L'Homme en bleu'' (1968), ''Bouquet de fleurs miniature'' * Mohamed Ghanem (1925-), ''Double page de Coran'' * Mohamed Bouzid (1929-2014), ''Kabylie'', ''Rue à Alger'' (1961, 81 × 50 cm), ''La brebis'' (1968) * Mohammed Khadda (1930-1991), ''Alphabet libre'', ''Maurice Audin'', ''Totem'', ''Le Bivouac'', ''Dahra'', ''J'ai pour totem la paix'', ''Les Casbahs ne s'assiègent pas'', ''Le Volontaire'', ''Sans titre'' (1), ''Sans titre'' (2) * Mohamed Khetib (1923-), * Mohamed Louail (1930-2011), ''Femme au coufin'' * Noureddine Chegrane (1942-), ''Sources de signe'' * Rezki Zérarti (1938-), ''Cuba-Washington'' * Souhila Bel Bahar (1934-), "Le Voyage chimérique", "L'Amirauté", "Ketchaoua" * Salah Hioun (1936-2017 ) * Zoubir Hellal (1952-), ''L'Aâdjar'' (1981), ''l'œil'' (1982) File:Bensari2.jpg, ''Fête à Tlemcen'' - Detail of a miniature, by Bachir Yellès. File:B. Yelles Scène de campagne.jpg, ''Rencontre'' - Scène de campagne en Kabylie (2005), by Bachir Yellès. File:Mosquée de Sidi Bellahsen.JPG, ''Mosquée de Sidi Bellahsen'', by
Bachir Yellès Bachir Yellès (; 12 September 1921 – 16 August 2022) was an Algerian painter. Life and career Yellès was born in Tlemcen on 12 September 1921.Bloom and Blair, p50 "Bachir Yelles (b. 1921) and Muhammad Bouzid (b. 1929) explored Cubism, Fauvis ...
. File:Fulgurance.jpg, ''Fulgurance'', by
Bachir Yellès Bachir Yellès (; 12 September 1921 – 16 August 2022) was an Algerian painter. Life and career Yellès was born in Tlemcen on 12 September 1921.Bloom and Blair, p50 "Bachir Yelles (b. 1921) and Muhammad Bouzid (b. 1929) explored Cubism, Fauvis ...
. File:5b - Nature morte Berbère.jpg, '' Le Silo bleu'', by
Hocine Ziani Hocine Ziani (born in Sidi Daoud on 3 May 1953) is an Algerian painter and artist in plastic arts. Early years Ziani was born in 1953 in a Kabyle family living in the countryside of lower Kabylia near Zawiyet Sidi Amar Cherif and not far from ...
. File:2 - La reine Tin Hinan, 125x150cm, huile sur toile.jpg, '' La Reine Tin Hinan'', by
Hocine Ziani Hocine Ziani (born in Sidi Daoud on 3 May 1953) is an Algerian painter and artist in plastic arts. Early years Ziani was born in 1953 in a Kabyle family living in the countryside of lower Kabylia near Zawiyet Sidi Amar Cherif and not far from ...
. File:Hayreddin Barbarossa - Fine Art Museum Algiers.jpg, Painting of Khayr ad-Din Barbarossa by Mohamed Racim.


Sculpture collection

Some of the 800 sculptures in the museum. Non-exhaustive list *
Auguste Rodin François Auguste René Rodin (12 November 184017 November 1917) was a French sculptor, generally considered the founder of modern sculpture. He was schooled traditionally and took a craftsman-like approach to his work. Rodin possessed a uniqu ...
(1840-1917), 8 bronzes (dont le grand ''Age d'airain'', ''L'Éternel Printemps'') et 6 plâtres (dont la grande ''Eve'', le grand ''Homme qui marche'', ''Saint-Jean Baptiste''), *
Antoine Bourdelle Antoine Bourdelle (30 October 1861 – 1 October 1929), born Émile Antoine Bordelles, was an influential and prolific French sculptor and teacher. He was a student of Auguste Rodin, a teacher of Giacometti and Henri Matisse, and an important fi ...
(1861-1929), ''Dr Koeberlé'', ''Héraklès archer'' * André Greck (1912-1993), ''Portrait de Mr Godin'' *
Antoine-Louis Barye Antoine-Louis Barye (24 September 179525 June 1875) was a Romantic French sculptor most famous for his work as an ''animalier'', a sculptor of animals. His son and student was the known sculptor Alfred Barye. Biography Born in Paris, France, Ba ...
(1796-1875), ''La Paix, la Guerre'' *
Aristide Maillol Aristide Joseph Bonaventure Maillol (; December 8, 1861 – September 27, 1944) was a French sculptor, painter, and printmaker.Le Normand-Romain, Antoinette . "Maillol, Aristide". ''Grove Art Online. Oxford Art Online''. Oxford University P ...
(1861-1944), * Camille Alaphilippe (1874-1939), ''Les Mains'', bronze. *
Charles Bigonet Charles is a masculine given name predominantly found in English and French speaking countries. It is from the French form ''Charles'' of the Proto-Germanic name (in runic alphabet) or ''*karilaz'' (in Latin alphabet), whose meaning was " ...
(1877-1931), ''La Mauresque au bain'' *
Charles Despiau Charles Despiau (November 4, 1874 – October 28, 1946) was a French sculptor. Early life Charles-Albert Despiau was born at Mont-de-Marsan, Landes and attended first the École des Arts Décoratifs and later the École nationale supérieure de ...
(1874-1946), ''L'Homme prêt à l'action'' * Émile Gaudissard (1872-1956), ''Femme du Sud algérien nouant son guennour'' - ''Kabyle jouant de la flûte'' *
François Rude François Rude (4 January 1784 – 3 November 1855) was a French sculptor, best known for the ''Departure of the Volunteers'', also known as ''La Marseillaise'' on the Arc de Triomphe in Paris. (1835–36). His work often expressed patriotic the ...
(1784-1855), ''La Tête de la Marseillaise'' *
George Minne George (Georges) Minne (born ''Georgius Joannes Leonardus Minne''; 30 August 1866 – 18 February 1941) was a Belgian artist and sculptor famous for his idealized depictions of man's inner spiritual conflicts, including the "Kneeling Youth" scu ...
(1866-1941), ''Buste d'Homme'' * Georges Halbout du Tanney (1895-1986), ''Buste de Jeune Mauresque'' *
Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux (11 May 1827 – 12 October 1875) was a French sculptor and painter during the Second Empire under Napoleon III. Life Born in Valenciennes, Nord, son of a mason, his early studies were under François Rude. Carpeaux en ...
(1827-1875), ''Rieuse aux Lauriers'' * Marcel Damboise (1903-1992), ''Tête de Mauresque'' *
Paul Belmondo Paul Alexandre Belmondo (born 23 April 1963) is a French racing driver who raced in Formula One for the March and Pacific Racing teams. He was born in Boulogne-Billancourt, Hauts-de-Seine, the son of actor Jean-Paul Belmondo and grandson of scul ...
(1898-1982), ''Ève'' *
Paul Jouve Pierre-Paul Jouve (Marlotte, Seine-et-Marne, 16 March 1878 - Paris, 13 May 1973) was a French painter, sculptor and illustrator. He was notable for his paintings and sculptures of Africa's animals. He was first recipient of the Prix Abd-el-Ti ...
(1880-1973), * Philippe Besnard (1885-1971),


Prints and Drawings Department

The print cabinet contains around 1500 works. The collection includes drawings, etchings, red chalks, watercolours, sketches, lithographs, illuminations, miniatures and calligraphy.


Drawings

Non-exhaustive list * Alfred Chataud (1833–1908) *
Eugène Boudin Eugène Louis Boudin (; 12 July 18248 August 1898) was one of the first French landscape painters to paint outdoors. Boudin was a marine painter, and expert in the rendering of all that goes upon the sea and along its shores. His pastels, summa ...
(1824–1898), Les roches noires de Trouville. *
Théodore Chassériau Théodore Chassériau (September 20, 1819 – October 8, 1856) was a Captaincy General of Santo Domingo, Dominican-born French Romanticism, Romantic Painting, painter noted for his portraits, historical and religious paintings, allegorical murals, ...
(1819–1856), Portrait présumé de la marquise de Caussade. (Narbonne) Les belles du harem - Alfred Chataud - Musée des Beaux-Arts de Narbonne.jpg, ''Les Belles du harem'' - Alfred Chataud. File:Chataud 2.jpg, ''Après la cérémonie de la circoncision'' - Alfred Chataud. File:Chataud 8.jpg, ''Femme des Ouled-Naïl richement parée'' - Alfred Chataud. File:Chataud 3.jpg, ''Fillettes d'Alger'' - Alfred Chataud. File:Chataud 11.jpg, ''Ruelle de la casbah'' - Alfred Chataud.


Engravings

Non-exhaustive list * Maurice Asselin (1882–1947).


Sanguines

Non-exhaustive list * Jean-Baptiste Greuze (1725–1805).


Watercolours and Sketches

Non-exhaustive list * Auguste Rodin (1840–1917) * Aristide Maillol (1861–1944) * Eugène Delacroix (1798–1863) * Edme Alexis Alfred Dehodencq (1822–1882) * Jeanne Poupelet (1874–1932) * Marcel Gimond (1894–1961) * Marcel Damboise (1903–1992) * Paul Belmondo (1898–1982) * Thomas Couture (1815–1879)


Lithographs

Non-exhaustive list * Auguste Raffet (1804–1860) * Carle Vernet (1758–1836).


Illuminations and miniatures

Non-exhaustive list * Mohamed Racim (1896–1975), ''Histoire de l'Islam'' * Mohamed Ghanem (1925-) * Mohamed Hamimoumna (1897–1975) * Mustapha Ben Debbagh (1906–2006) * Mahieddine Boutaleb (1918-1994).


Calligraphy

Non-exhaustive list * Abdelkader Boumala (1952-) * Aziz Kacimi (1963-).


Other collections

* Ceramics *Decorative arts *Furniture


Museum curators

* Jean Alazard (from 1930 to 1960) * Jean de Maisonseul (from1962 to 1975) * Bachir Yellès, director of the Musée des Beaux-Arts d'Alger, acted as interim director in 1975 *
Malika Dorbani Bouabdellah Malika may refer to: Places Nepal *Malika, Baglung, a municipality *Malika, Dailekh, a village development committee *Malika Bota, a village development committee *Malika Rural Municipality, Gulmi *Malika Rural Municipality, Myagdi *Malika Dhuri, ...
(à 1994) * Dalila Mahammed-Orfali


See also

*
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References


External links

* http://www.musee-beauxarts.dz/ {{Authority control Museums in Algiers Art museums and galleries in Algeria