Musee de Grenoble
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Grenoble 
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Fine Arts, Modern Art, and Egyptology
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The Museum in Grenoble is the Museum of Fine Arts, Modern Art and Egyptology in the city of Grenoble , Isère, in France.
The museum opened in 1798 and moved to a building on Place de Verdun in 1872 . Finally, in 1994 it was given its domicile in an area of 18,270 m² on Place de Lavalette near Parc Albert Michallon . Numerous modern sculptures can be seen in the park.
Collections
The museum's collections include primarily European art from the Renaissance to the present day. Most of the works come from artists who have worked in France. For the 17th century these are, for example, Georges de la Tour , Simon Vouet or Claude Lorrain .
Starting with classical modernism, numerous works by non-French artists are also represented, and American artists have also been represented in the art since the 1960s. An extensive group of works by Henri Matisse is outstanding , including Interieur aux aubergines (1911), one of his groundbreaking, large-format interior pictures.
The penitent Saint Jerome by Georges de la Tour
Antibes by Henri Edmond Cross
literature
- Guide to the collections du musée de Grenoble. Tome 1 - De l'antiquité au XIXe siècle, Musée de Grenoble, Fage éditions, 2015, ISBN 978-2-84975-384-2
- Guide to the collections du musée de Grenoble. Tome 2 - XXe siècle et XXIe siècle, Musée de Grenoble, Fage éditions, 2015, ISBN 978-2-84975-385-9
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ A b Serge Lemoine, Marianne Le Pommeré, Sandrine Lachaud, Jeanine Scaringella: Image d'une collection: Musée de Grenoble . Réunion des musées nationaux, Paris 1999, ISBN 2-7118-3795-5 .