Musée des Beaux-Arts et d'Archéologie de Besançon
The Musée des Beaux-Arts et d'Archéologie in Besançon is the oldest public museum in France . According to its founding date of 1694, it is almost a hundred years older than the Louvre .
The museum has been located in a former granary in the city center since 1843. After the Besson collection was taken up, a renovation was carried out under the direction of Le Corbusier's student Louis Miquel from 1967 to 1970, with the inner courtyard being covered.
Collections
The collections are divided into archeology , drawings and paintings.
archeology
- The Egyptian collection contains mummies of the royal scribe Seramon (late 21st dynasty) and the Ankhpakhered from the 26th dynasty, as well as smaller objects such as statuettes.
- The prehistoric department shows objects from the Neolithic , Bronze Age and Iron Age .
- The Gallo-Roman culture is the subject of the most important archaeological section. It contains the mosaics of Neptune and Medusa from the collège Lumière , other objects from excavations in the urban area and a bronze statue of a bull with three horns from Avrigney-Virey .
- The medieval collection shows statues, sarcophagi and other objects.
drawings
- The museum has one of the largest collections of graphics in France with over 5000 works from the end of the 15th century to the middle of the 20th century. Among the exhibited artists are Federico Barocci , Jacopo Tintoretto , Annibale Carracci , Giovanni Battista Tiepolo as examples of Italian art from the 15th to 18th centuries.
- Albrecht Dürer , Peter Paul Rubens , Jacob Jordaens , Rembrandt
- Poussin , Le Sueur , Simon Vouet , François Boucher , Jean-Honoré Fragonard , Hubert Robert , Watteau , Jacques-Louis David , Géricault , Eugène Delacroix , Gustave Courbet , Raoul Dufy , Albert Marquet , Henri Matisse , Auguste Rodin
painting
The collection shows examples of European art since the 14th century:
- Italy: Giovanni Bellini , Jacopo Tintoretto , Tizian , Palumbo, Giuseppe Recco , Luca Giordano , Tiepolo and especially Agnolo Bronzino with his lamentation for the dead Christ .
- Nordic schools: Lucas Cranach the Elder , Jan Brueghel the Elder , Peter Paul Rubens , Jacob Jordaens , Jan Lievens , Ruysdael , Aelbert Cuyp , Willem Claesz Heda , Jan van Goyen ...
- Spain: Zurbarán , Juan de Arellano , Francisco Goya and his scenes of cannibalism.
- France: Simon Vouet , Philippe de Champaigne , Le Sueur , Hubert Robert , Jean-Honoré Fragonard , François Boucher , Nonotte , Jacques-Louis David , Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres , Géricault , Paul Delaroche . Outstanding are Gustave Courbet with his monumental painting L'Hallali du cerf , as well as Paul Signac , Pierre Bonnard , Félix Vallotton , Auguste Renoir , Henri Matisse , Suzanne Valadon , Albert Marquet and others.
Scene of cannibalism , Francisco de Goya .
Origin of the collection
Essentially, the museum exhibits works from four donations. In 1694, Jean-Baptiste Boisot donated his collection of manuscripts, printed books, medals, eleven paintings and four busts from the Granvelle family to the city's Benedictines on condition that they be made accessible to the public twice a week. In 1819, Pierre-Adrien Pâris, the king's architect, offered his collection of 38 paintings and 183 drawings, including that of Jean-Honoré Fragonard, to the museum. Jean-François Gigoux († 1894) bequeathed his collection of more than 3,000 graphics and 460 paintings to the museum. The last donation for the time being came in 1969 from George Besson and his wife (112 paintings, 220 graphics of modern and contemporary art).
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Coordinates: 47 ° 14 ′ 25 ″ N , 6 ° 1 ′ 23 ″ E