The Musée des Beaux-Arts de Rouen () is an

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Rouen Rouen (, ; or ) is a city on the River Seine, in northwestern France. It is in the prefecture of Regions of France, region of Normandy (administrative region), Normandy and the Departments of France, department of Seine-Maritime. Formerly one ...

, in

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in north-western France. It was established by

Napoléon Bonaparte Napoleon Bonaparte (born Napoleone di Buonaparte; 15 August 1769 – 5 May 1821), later known by his regnal name Napoleon I, was a French general and statesman who rose to prominence during the French Revolution and led Military career ...

in 1801, and is housed in a building designed by and built between 1877, and 1888. Its collections include paintings, sculptures, drawings and objets d'art.

History

The museum was established by

in 1801. The museum building was built between 1877, and 1888 to designs by . The collections include paintings, sculptures, drawings and objets d'art from the Renaissance to the present day, including a collection of

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dating from the fifteenth to the early nineteenth century, and some 8000 drawings. The Depeaux collection of Impressionist works was donated to the museum in 1909. The Rouen Museum of Fine Arts is one of the main regional museums in France6. It is located in the heart of the city, opposite Square Verdrel, in a building whose complete renovation was completed in 1994. In addition to the presentation of its collections, the Museum of Fine Arts organizes several exhibitions a year. Some have an international impact and contribute to its reputation. In 2006, for example, the museum, having presented eight temporary exhibitions, among which the "Masterpieces of the Museums of Florence", increased the number of visitors from 87,000 to 154,000. The Normandie impressionniste festival, the exhibition "A city for impressionism: Monet, Pissarro and Gauguin in Rouen" attracted 240,000 visitors, which made it the highlight of the festival.

Paintings

The museum holds paintings of several European schools from the sixteenth century to the present day. Among them is work by: * sixteenth century: Jacopo Bassano, Annibale Carracci, François Clouet, Gerard David,

Perugino Pietro Perugino ( ; ; born Pietro Vannucci or Pietro Vanucci; – 1523), an Italian Renaissance painter of the Umbrian school, developed some of the qualities that found classic expression in the High Renaissance. Raphael became his most famous ...

and Veronese * seventeenth century:

Caravaggio Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio (also Michele Angelo Merigi or Amerighi da Caravaggio; 29 September 1571 – 18 July 1610), known mononymously as Caravaggio, was an Italian painter active in Rome for most of his artistic life. During the fina ...

, Philippe de Champaigne, Van Dyck, Luca Giordano, Guercino, Laurent de La Hyre, Pierre Mignard, Nicolas Poussin, Jusepe de Ribera, Rubens, Eustache Le Sueur,

Diego Velázquez Diego Rodríguez de Silva y Velázquez (baptised 6 June 15996 August 1660) was a Spanish painter, the leading artist in the Noble court, court of King Philip IV of Spain, Philip IV of Spain and Portugal, and of the Spanish Golden Age. He i ...

, Simon Vouet and

John Michael Wright John Michael Wright (May 1617 – July 1694) was an English painter, mainly of portraits in the Baroque style. Born and raised in London, Wright trained in Edinburgh under the Scots painter George Jamesone, and sometimes described himself as Scot ...

. * eighteenth century: François Boucher, Fragonard, Francesco Guardi, Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun, Pietro Longhi, Hyacinthe Rigaud and Hubert Robert. * nineteenth century: Gustave Caillebotte, Eugène Carrière,

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, Édouard Joseph Dantan,

Jacques-Louis David Jacques-Louis David (; 30 August 1748 – 29 December 1825) was a French painter in the Neoclassicism, Neoclassical style, considered to be the preeminent painter of the era. In the 1780s, his cerebral brand of history painting marked a change in ...

Degas Edgar Degas (, ; born Hilaire-Germain-Edgar De Gas, ; 19 July 183427 September 1917) was a French people, French Impressionism, Impressionist artist famous for his pastel drawings and oil paintings. Degas also produced bronze sculptures, Print ...

, Delacroix, Géricault, Ingres, Monet, Gustave Moreau, Camille Pissarro, Renoir and Sisley * twentieth century: André Derain, Jean Dubuffet, Marcel Duchamp, Raoul Dufy,

Amedeo Modigliani Amedeo Clemente Modigliani (; ; 12 July 1884 – 24 January 1920) was an Italian painter and sculptor of the École de Paris who worked mainly in France. He is known for portraits and nudes in a modern art, modern style characterized by a surre ...

, Robert Antoine Pinchon, Jacques Villon and Édouard Vuillard.

Selected works

File:David Virgin among the Virgins.jpg, Gerard David, ''The Virgin among the Virgins'' File:François Clouet 001.jpg, François Clouet, '' Diana bathing'' File:Caravaggio flagellation.jpg,

, '' Christ at the Column'' File:0208vela.jpg,

, ''Democritus'' File:Théodore Géricault cavalo bravo.jpg, Théodore Géricault, ''Capture of a horse'' File:Charles-Marie-Bouton--Chapelle du Calvaire dans l'église Saint-Roch.jpg, Charles Marie Bouton, ''Chapelle du Calvaire dans l'église Saint-Roch'' File:Jeanne d'arc prisonnière à Rouen-Pierre Révoil-MBA Lyon 2014.jpeg, '' Joan of Arc Imprisoned in Rouen by Pierre Révoil, 1819 File:Theodore-Gericault--cheval-arabe-gris-blanc-rouen.jpg, Théodore Géricault, ''Cheval arabe gris-blanc'' File:Claude Monet 043.jpg,

Claude Monet Oscar-Claude Monet (, ; ; 14 November 1840 – 5 December 1926) was a French painter and founder of Impressionism painting who is seen as a key precursor to modernism, especially in his attempts to paint nature as he perceived it. During his ...

, ''Rue Saint-Denis'' File:Alfred Sisley 062.jpg, Alfred Sisley, ''L'Inondation à Port-Marly'' File:Amedeo Modigliani 047.jpg,

, ''Paul Alexandre devant un vitrage'' File:Robert Antoine Pinchon, Le Pont aux Anglais, soleil couchant, 1905, oil on canvas, 54 x 73 cm, Musée des Beaux-Arts de Rouen.jpg, Robert Antoine Pinchon, '' Le Pont aux Anglais, soleil couchant'', 1905. Former collection François Depeaux File:Robert Antoine Pinchon, before 1909, Péniche dans la brume, oil on canvas, 54 x 73 cm, Musée des Beaux-Arts de Rouen, donation François Depeaux, 1909.jpg, Robert Antoine Pinchon, before 1909, ''Péniche dans la brume'', oil on canvas, 54 x 73 cm, donation François Depeaux, 1909

Sculptures

The Musée des Beaux-Arts de Rouen houses a lost statue by Pierre Paul Puget. This statue of ''Hercules slaying the Hydra of Lerna'' was originally in the castle of Vaudreuil, and was discovered, in 1882, by Adolphe-André Porée on the grounds of the Biéville-Beuville castle..

References

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