Musée des beaux-arts de Pau
The Musée des beaux-arts de Pau ( Museum of Fine Arts ) is the municipal art museum of Pau . It was founded in 1864 and is located on Rue Mathieu Lalanne in the center of the city. The focus of the collection is on French paintings from the 19th century. There are also older works by various European schools and works from the 20th century.
history
The founding of the museum in Pau goes back to a group of art lovers who formed the Société des Amis des Arts on April 12, 1863 . This association of art lovers , to which the mayor Patrick O'Quin belonged, founded the Musée des beaux-arts de Pau in 1864 with the support of the city council. The first floor of the old palace of justice served as the exhibition building. First of all, paintings that came from the town hall to the museum were shown. There were also works of art transferred from the French state and initial purchases. For example, the historical painting La duchesse de Nemours et Henri III was acquired by Arnold Scheffer as early as 1864 . In 1872, 30 paintings from the Louis La Caze collection were inherited into the museum. This included, for example, works by Francisco de Zurbarán or Jacob Jordaens . Through the legacy of Emile Noulibos, who died in 1875, the museum received a purchase budget for contemporary French painting. Among other things, Degas' masterpiece The Cotton Office in New Orleans was purchased from this in 1878 . In 1881 the museum moved into the building of the old Asile d'aliénés , the former insane asylum on Place Bosquet. In 1931, a new Art Deco- style museum was opened in the immediate vicinity .
collection
The old Italian painting is represented in the museum with some important works. These include the religious motifs Tobias takes the heart and liver of the fish by Pietro della Vecchia , Holy Family by Andrea Solari and Hagar and the angel by Simone Cantarini . There is also, for example, the portrait of A Philosopher by Luca Giordano . The collection also contains exemplary works of Flemish and Old Dutch painting such as a portrait of a lady by Bartholomeus van der Helst , a Hebe by Jacob Jordaens , the rural scene The Cattle Trade by David Teniers the Younger , the battle picture The Battle for the Standard by Philips Wouwerman , the portrait of a man with a pen by Jan Lievens , the historical picture of Achilles defeating Hector by Peter Paul Rubens and the religious motifs Penitent Magdalena by Cornelis de Vos and Entry into the Ark by Jan Brueghel the Elder . There are also some examples of Spanish baroque painting such as a Saint Francis by El Greco , a Saint Jerome by Jusepe de Ribera , a portrait of Felipe de Guimaran by Francisco de Zurbarán and a Christ on the cross by Alonso Cano . The landscape painting View of Toledo by Aureliano de Beruete dates from the 19th century . There is also a view of Pêcheurs de Saint-Ives from Brittany by the Swedish painter Anders Zorn .
Simone Cantarini:
Hagar and the Angel
Peter Paul Rubens:
Achilles defeats Hector
El Greco:
Saint Francis
The museum collection focuses on works of French painting. In addition to some older paintings such as the mythological representation of a woman, Portrait of Mademoiselle de Barral as Diana by Nicolas de Largillière or the portrait of Madame de Miramion by François de Troy , works from the 19th century can be found here. These include the historical picture Judit and Holofernes by Horace Vernet , the Spanish motifs Don Quichotte et Sancho by Alexandre-Gabriel Decamps and Courses de taureaux en Espagne by Alfred Dehodencq and the Orient picture Esther à l'odalisque by Léon Benouville . There are also landscapes such as Fontainebleau aux gorges d'Apremont by Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot and Les Pyrénées vues d'Ustaritz by Théodore Rousseau or the portrait de femme by Thomas Couture .
Nicolas de Largillière:
Portrait of the Mademoiselle de Barral as Diana
Léon Benouville:
Esther à l'odalisque
Edgar Degas:
The cotton office in New Orleans
Étienne Moreau-Nélaton:
Enfants au piano
From the second half of the 19th century there are works of the Barbizon school such as the landscape Effet de soleil couchant by Constant Troyon or the Venice view Le Place Saint Marc a Venise by Félix Ziem , academic paintings such as Le Bon Samaritain by Augustin Théodule Ribot , the Portraits of women Madame Maurice Pascal et son chien Tiny by Léon Bonnat and Tête d'étude by Jean-Jacques Henner and the mountain landscape La Passerelle sur le gave by Eugène Isabey . The realism works in the collection include the depiction of the market woman Marianne Offrey by Alfred Philippe Roll or the View of a Slaughterhouse Echaudoir by Henri Gervex . By Eugène Boudin , there are two harbor views Anvers and Le Port de Bordeaux . The Impressionist painting is represented in the museum by works such as the Portrait of a Woman Joueuse de mandoline and the landscape Une allée à La Queue-en-Brie by Henri Rouart , the interior picture with children Enfants au piano by Etienne Moreau-Nelaton , the garden scene Pasie cousant dans le jardin de Bougival by Berthe Morisot , the group portrait Le Déjeuner dans la serre by Louise Abbéma , the river landscape Les Bords de la Marne. Pêche à l'épervier à la boucle de Saint-Maur by Stanislas Lépine and the bullfighting scene Novillada en Biscaye by Gustave Colin . One of the most important works in the collection is The Cotton Office in New Orleans by Edgar Degas , the painter's first painting to be acquired by a museum. There are also images of symbolism such as the paintings Mère et Enfant and Voir et comprendre by Eugène Carrière or the similarly painted works Rêve de poète ou Nuit de printemps and Danses by Henri Fantin-Latour . Towards the end of the century, landscapes such as Notre-Dame vue du quai de la Tournelle by Albert Lebourg and Au village de Champs and L'Allée des Platanes by Jean-François Raffaëlli were created . The bronze bust Portrait de Rose Beuret by Auguste Rodin also dates from the 19th century .
From the 20th century, the museum has the port view Barques à Ciboure and the Paris motif Notre-Dame, soleil by Albert Marquet , the works Le 14 Juillet en Avignon , Les Deux Amies and Paysage by André Lhote , Les Musiciens , Parade de foire dans le Finistère and Portrait d'Aman-Jean by Lucien Simon and the portrait of a woman Portrait d'Anne Diriart by Kees van Dongen . There is also work by post-World War II artists, including Raymond Guerrier and Jean-Jacques Morvan .
literature
- Philippe Comte: Musée des beaux-arts, ville de Pau, catalog raisonné des peintures . Musée des beaux-arts. Pau 1993.
- Guillaume Ambroise, Patrick Ségura, Dominique Vazquez: Peintures du XIXe siècle, Musée des beaux-arts de Pau . Le Festin editions, Bordeaux 2007, ISBN 978-2-915262-56-8 .
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Coordinates: 43 ° 17 ′ 51.9 ″ N , 0 ° 21 ′ 52 ″ W.