Musée des Beaux-Arts de Bordeaux

Entrance facade of the north wing
Established	1801 (1801)
Location	20, cours d'Albret 33000 Bordeaux
Visitors	117,492 (2014) [1]
Public transit access	Tramway, lines A and B, stop Hôtel de ville
Website	www.musba-bordeaux.fr/en

The Musée des Beaux-Arts de Bordeaux is the fine arts museum of the city of Bordeaux, France. The museum is housed in a dependency of the Palais Rohan in central Bordeaux. Its collections include paintings, sculptures and drawings from the 15th century to the 20th century. The largest collection is composed of paintings, and its strong points are works by French, Flemish painters and Dutch painters.

In front of the building, there is the Galerie des Beaux-Arts, where temporary exhibitions are housed.

History

Established in 1801 ^[2] by the painter Pierre Lacour, ^[3] it is one of the largest art galleries in France outside Paris. The museum holds several paintings that were looted by the French during the French Revolution (so-called 'saisies révolutionnaires') such as the Martyrdom of Saint Georges by Peter Paul Rubens. ^[4]

First hosted in a library and then in a room of the town hall, the collection was moved into the current building after its construction from 1875 to 1881. The Galerie des Beaux-Arts was built later, from 1936 to 1939.

Painting collection

Here is a list of some of the painters represented in the museum collections:

Gallery

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  Hendrick Ter Brugghen, Un chanteur accompagnant au luth, before 1629.
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  Giambattista Pittoni, Eliezer and Rebecca, before 1725.
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  Delacroix, Greece on the ruins of Missolonghi.
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  Daubigny, The banks of the Oise.
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  Antoine-Jean Gros, L'embarquement de la duchesse d'Angoulême.
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  Pierre Lacour, Vue d’une partie du port et des quais de Bordeaux dits des Chartrons et de Bacalan, 1804.
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  Henri Gervex, Rolla, 1878,.
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  Mary Cassatt, Portrait de fillette, 1879.
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  Alfred Smith, Le quai de Bacalan à Bordeaux le soir, 1883,.
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  Odilon Redon, The Chariot of Apollo, 1909.
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  Albert Marquet, Nu en contre-jour, 1909.

References

External links

• Official Website (english version)

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