Musée des Beaux-Arts de Rouen

The Musée des Beaux-Arts de Rouen (French pronunciation: [myze de boz‿aʁ ʁwɑ̃]) 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.

Musée des beaux-arts de Rouen
The Musée des beaux-arts de Rouen
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Established1801
LocationEsplanade Marcel-Duchamp
76000 Rouen, Normandy, France
Coordinates49°26′41″N 1°05′41″E / 49.444722°N 1.094722°E / 49.444722; 1.094722
TypeArt museum
Visitors315,000 (2011)
DirectorSylvain Amic
CuratorSylvain Amic
Websitembarouen.fr

History

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Main façade of the Museum

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]

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.[1]

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.[2] The Normandie impressionniste festival, the exhibition "A city for impressionism: Monet, Pissarro and Gauguin in Rouen" attracted 240,000 visitors,[3] which made it the highlight of the festival.

Paintings

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Members of the Rouen School, Salon des Artistes Rouennais, musée des Beaux-Arts de Rouen, Robert Antoine Pinchon (centre), 1934

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

Selected works

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Sculptures

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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.[4]

References

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  1. ^ "Palmarès 2017 des musées en France". Archived from the original on 2023-05-04. Retrieved 2023-05-04.
  2. ^ Herzberg, Nathaniel (18 May 2007). "A Rouen, l'art de gérer un musée" [In Rouen, the art of managing a museum]. Le Monde (in French). Archived from the original on 11 April 2021. Retrieved 10 December 2023.
  3. ^ "Musée des Beaux-Arts à Rouen: les derniers jours du" [Musée des Beaux-Arts à Rouen: The last days]. paris-normandie.fr (in French). 25 March 2011. Retrieved 10 December 2023.
  4. ^ French Regional & American Museum Exchange (FRAME) (2010-06-19). "Hercule terrassant l'hydre de Lerne, 1659-1660". Archived from the original on 2011-07-26..