Musée des Beaux-Arts (Tournai)
The Musée des Beaux-Arts (German: Museum of Fine Arts) houses the painting and sculpture collection of the Belgian city of Tournai .
history
The collection of the Belgian painter, patron and art collector Henri van Cutsem (1839–1904) forms the core of the Musée des Beaux-Arts. His heir, the sculptor Guillaume Charlier (1854–1958) bequeathed this collection to the city of Tournai, where it was exhibited in the town hall from 1905 onwards. The First World War initially delayed a solution to better present the works of art. The inauguration of the museum, designed by the Art Nouveau architect Victor Horta , took place on June 17, 1928 . In addition to the van Cutsem collection, older holdings from the city of Tournai and later other donations also came to the museum.
collection
The 700 works of art, all of which can be seen in halls with natural skylights, range from old Dutch paintings to artists of the 20th century. The museum owns a Madonna and Child by Rogier van der Weyden , who was born in Tournai, and is also showing all of the artist's works as reproductions in original size in a didactic exhibition. Other pictures by old masters in the museum are a landscape with three people by Jan Brueghel the Elder , the bird trap by Pieter Brueghel the Younger , the portrait of Barthelemy Alatruye and the portrait of Marie de Pacy by the master of Flémalle , the portrait of the Duke of Bouillon by Charles Lebrun , a Madonna and Child by Amboise Francken , two flower still lifes by Jan van Kessel and works by Abel Grimmer , Joris van Son and Helmont van Mathieu . The creators of two pictures that are attributed to Jacob Jordaens and Hieronymus Bosch are unclear .
The inventory of paintings from the middle of the 19th century to the beginning of the 20th century is particularly extensive. The masterpieces from the van Cutsem collection include two paintings by Edouard Manet. In addition to at Père Lathuille, his painting Argenteuil, exhibited in the Paris Salon in 1875, can also be seen in the museum. The museum also shows a view of Cap Martin by Claude Monet , by Georges Seurat Les Bas-Butin, Honfleur , by Jules Bastien-Lepage the First Communion and the Sleeping Shepherd and by Henri Fantin-Latour next to two flower still lifes a portrait of Madamoiselle Budgett .
Belgian painting is represented in the museum by Franz Courtens , Guillaume Van Strydonck , Alfred de Knyff , Theodore Verstraete , Louis Gallait , Hippolyte Boulenger , Charles Degroux and Henri de Braekeleer . Fernand Khnopff is one of the better-known artists in this department, and a portrait of a lady entitled Rosen is on display in the museum. The Museum Das Bad is showing by Théo van Rysselberghe and an early work by James Ensor entitled Duck Pond .
Exhibited works
Rogier van der Weyden:
Madonna and Child
Jules Bastien-Lepage:
First Communion
Edouard Manet:
At Père Lathuille
Georges Seurat:
Les Bas-Butin, Honfleur
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literature
- Musée des Beaux-Arts de Tournai: Architectures rêvées. Victor Horta et le musée des beaux-arts de Tournai. Casterman, Tournai 1996 ISBN 2-203-38028-4 (exhibition catalog).
- Serge Le Bailly de Tilleghem: Musée des beaux-arts, Tournai (= Musea nostra. 14, ISSN 0778-1350 ). Crédit Communal, Brussels 1989.
- Serge Le Bailly de Tilleghem: Musée des beaux-arts de Tournai. ASBL Tourisme & Culture, Tournai 2004.
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Coordinates: 50 ° 36 ′ 10 ″ N , 3 ° 23 ′ 8 ″ E