Goya Museum

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The Musée Goya (also Musée Goya - musée d'art hispanique ) is an art museum in the southern French city of Castres . It is located in the former bishop's palace from the 17th century. One focus of the collections are works of art from Spain.

history

The museum, founded in 1840, is located in the former bishop's palace in the city of Castres. The building dates back to the 17th century and was designed by the architect Jules Hardouin-Mansart . At first it was a museum with a diverse collection of paintings, exhibits from zoology and mineralogy. That changed in 1894 when the city received the foundation from Pierre Briguiboul. He left the collections of his father Marcel Briguiboul , who was himself a painter and owned several Spanish paintings, to the museum . These included three paintings by Francisco de Goya , whose name the museum later took over. Especially after the Second World War, the museum specialized in art from Spain, bought some works of art with funds from the Fonds Régional d'Acquisition pour les Musées and received important loans from state museums such as the Musée Picasso in Paris , the Musée national du Moyen Âge and the Louvre . Since 1982 the museum has had an art history specialist library in the tower of the former bishop's palace. In addition to the permanent collection, the museum regularly shows temporary exhibitions and offers numerous educational programs for adults and children.

Collections

The museum's collections have been diverse since it was founded. Today you can find old furniture, tapestries, historical weapons and a coin collection in the museum. The focus of the collection is on works of art from Spain, but works by French artists can also be found in the museum. Through the Briguiboul Foundation, the museum received the paintings Junta de la Compañía de Filipinas , Portrait Francisco del Mazo and Self-Portrait with Glasses by Francisco de Goya in 1894 . The artist's important print series was added later, so that the museum was renamed Musée Goya - musée d'art hispanique . Other important works came to the museum on permanent loan from the Louvre in 1949. These include the paintings The Virgin with the Rosary by Bartolomé Esteban Murillo and the portrait of Philip IV as a hunter from the workshop of Diego Velázquez . Other works of the Spanish Baroque in the collection, the images are the children of Count de Casa Flórez of Vicente López Portaña , Visitation and wedding Mary of Alonso Cano , Transfiguration on Mount Tabor of Juan Rexach , serving Christ in the Wilderness of angels of Francisco Pacheco del Río and The Martyrdom of St. Sebastian by Sebastián Muñoz . From the 19th century, the museum houses the works of Woman Portrait and Portrait Seniora de Scott by Federico de Madrazo y Kuntz , Les Cigarrales by Aureliano de Beruete and the portrait of Jacques Seligmann by Joaquín Sorolla . An example of 20th century Spanish painting is the painting Buste d'homme écrivant by Pablo Picasso , a late work by the artist from 1971.

There are several references to Spain in the works of French painters in the museum. So shows Alfred Dehodencq in Combat de Novillos a bullfighting scene and Jacques-Emile Blanche in La Guerre d'Espagne a motif from the Spanish Civil War . There are also images such as Jeune femme faisant la charité à l'entrée de la chapelle de l'hôpital San Sebastian à Cordoue - a street scene from Cordoba - by Léon Bonnat , the group portrait La Famille du peintre Del Mazo by Théodore Géricault or Jeune Mendiant by Henri Fantin-Latour , who used a work by Bartolomé Esteban Murillo as a model for this picture . The museum also shows sculptures from France and Spain.

literature

  • Jean-Louis Augé: Le Musée Goya, Castres , Fondation Paribas, Paris 1997, ISBN 2-7118-3600-2 .

Web links

Commons : Musée Goya  - collection of images, videos and audio files


Coordinates: 43 ° 36 ′ 12.7 "  N , 2 ° 14 ′ 30.3"  E