Musée des Beaux-Arts (Lyon)
The Musée des Beaux-Arts is an art museum in Lyon that opened in 1801 . The museum is on the so-called Chaptal decree of Napoleon Bonaparte time back at the Place des Terreaux in an old abbey of the Benedictines , which in the wake of the French Revolution was dissolved. The museum's collection is presented in 70 galleries. This includes antiques , works of art and coins from various epochs from ancient Egypt to modern times . In 2007 the museum was visited by 242,000 art lovers.
history
Until 1792 the museum building was an abbey whose abbesses came from the high French nobility . Due to the importance of the abbey, Louis XIV financed major renovations in the 17th and 18th centuries. The baroque elements of the building are due to this work . As a result of the French Revolution , the nuns were expelled from the abbey. Then the Palais du Commerce et des Arts was housed in the building, in which works that had only been confiscated from church property were collected. Over time, archaeological and natural history objects were added. In 1805, a drawing school was founded in the building to train pattern designers for the Lyon-based silk industry . In 1860, the Palais des Arts was established in the building instead of its previous use . As a result, the collection was greatly expanded. At the beginning of the 20th century, the collection grew larger and more diverse. In addition, the name of the institution was renamed the Musée des Beaux-Arts . From 1988 to 1998 the museum building underwent a general renovation.
collection
The painting collection includes paintings from the 15th and 16th centuries by Italian artists such as Perugino and Veronese . From the 17th century, for example, the Spaniards Antonio de Pereda and Francisco de Zurbarán , as well as the French Simon Vouet , Philippe de Champaigne and Eustache Lesueur are represented. In addition to the early work The Stoning of St. Stephen by Rembrandt van Rijn , works by Peter Paul Rubens can be seen. The collection of paintings from the 19th and early 20th centuries includes works by Théodore Géricault , Eugène Delacroix , Édouard Manet ( Woman standing between flowers , young woman with cape ), Paul Gauguin and Georges Braque . Among other things, Claude Monet's work Stormy Sea near Etretat can also be seen. Examples of 20th century painting are works by Jean Bertholle , Jean Le Moal , Alfred Manessier and Gustave Singier . In 1997, thanks to the legacy of actress Jacqueline Delubac , works by Georges Rouault , Joan Miró , Jean Dubuffet , Francis Bacon , Pablo Picasso , Bernard Buffet , Raoul Dufy , Hans Hartung and Jean Fautrier were added to the collection.
Birth of Christ by Lorenzo Costa, 1490
Stormy Sea at Etretat by Claude Monet, 1883
Danae by Tintoretto, 1570
The stoning of Saint Stephen by Rembrandt van Rijn, 1625
Nave Nave Mahana ( Glorious Days ) by Paul Gauguin, 1896
The collection of objects from Ancient Egypt is based on a donation of around 400 pieces from the Louvre in Paris . Another significant donation was 1000 objects from the Victor Lorets family , who was an eminent French Egyptologist . Important pieces in the collection are sarcophagi and the gates of Ptolemy III. and Ptolemy IV of the temple of al-Madamud . Besides are canopic jars , reliefs and steles to see. There are also religious and cult objects, as well as everyday objects.
Bust of a pharaoh from the Middle Kingdom
Boat model from the 12th dynasty
Fragment of a relief from the temple of Cleopatra VII and Ptolemy XV.
Other areas of the museum's collection include objects from Sumer and Babylon , antiquity , Islamic art , graphics , numismatics , applied arts and sculptures . The sculpture department shows z. B. Works by Antoine Bourdelle , Laurent Marqueste , James Pradier and Auguste Rodin in the former abbey chapel, which has been converted into a Glyptothek .
literature
- Dominique Brachlianoff, Decourcy E. McIntosh (Ed.): The Real and the Spiritual: Nineteenth-Century French Drawings from the Musee Des Beaux-Arts De Lyon . Frick Art Museum, 1992. ISBN 1-881403-00-9
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Statistics from the French Ministry of Culture ( Memento of the original from March 14, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
Coordinates: 45 ° 46 ′ 1 ″ N , 4 ° 50 ′ 1 ″ E