The Musée des Beaux-Arts de Rouen is an art museum in Rouen, in Normandy in north-western France. It was established by Napoléon Bonaparte in 1801, and is housed in a building designed by Louis Sauvageot [fr] and built between 1877 and 1888. Its collections include paintings, sculptures, drawings and objets d'art.

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Musée des beaux-arts de Rouen

The Musée des beaux-arts de Rouen
Established	1801
Location	Esplanade Marcel-Duchamp 76000 Rouen, Normandy, France
Coordinates	49.444722°N 1.094722°E / 49.444722; 1.094722
Type	Art museum
Visitors	315,000 (2011)
Director	Sylvain Amic
Curator	Sylvain Amic
Website	mbarouen.fr

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History

The museum was established by Napoléon Bonaparte in 1801.^{[citation needed]} The museum building was built between 1877 and 1888 to designs by Louis Sauvageot [fr].^{[citation needed]} The collections include paintings, sculptures, drawings and objets d'art from the Renaissance to the present day, including a collection of Russian icons 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.^{[citation needed]}

Paintings

The museum holds paintings of several European schools from the sixteenth century to the present day. Among them is work by:^{[citation needed]}

• sixteenth century: Jacopo Bassano, Annibale Carracci, François Clouet, Gerard David, Perugino and Veronese
• seventeenth century: Caravaggio, 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, Simon Vouet and John Michael Wright.
• eighteenth century: François Boucher, Fragonard, Francesco Guardi, Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun, Pietro Longhi, Hyacinthe Rigaud and Hubert Robert.
• nineteenth century: Gustave Caillebotte, Eugène Carrière, Corot, Édouard Joseph Dantan, Jacques-Louis David, Degas, Delacroix, Géricault, Ingres, Monet, Gustave Moreau, Camille Pissarro, Renoir and Sisley
• twentieth century: André Derain, Jean Dubuffet, Marcel Duchamp, Raoul Dufy, Amedeo Modigliani, Robert Antoine Pinchon, Jacques Villon and Édouard Vuillard.

Selected works

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  Gerard David, The Virgin among the Virgins
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  François Clouet, Diana bathing
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  Caravaggio, Christ at the Column
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  Diego Velázquez, Democritus
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  Théodore Géricault, Capture of a horse
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  Charles Marie Bouton, Chapelle du Calvaire dans l'église Saint-Roch
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  Théodore Géricault, Cheval arabe gris-blanc
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  Claude Monet, Rue Saint-Denis
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  Alfred Sisley, L'Inondation à Port-Marly
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  Amedeo Modigliani, Paul Alexandre devant un vitrage
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  Robert Antoine Pinchon, Le Pont aux Anglais, soleil couchant, 1905. Former collection François Depeaux
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  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.[1]

References

На других языках

[de] Musée des beaux-arts de Rouen

[fr] Musée des Beaux-Arts de Rouen

[ru] Музей изящных искусств (Руан)