Musée des Beaux-Arts de Nantes
The Musée des Beaux- Arts de Nantes ( German Art Museum Nantes) is a French Museum in the city center of Nantes, Pays de la Loire. It displays art from the thirteenth century to the present.
The museum dates back to the so-called Chaptal decree of the time of Napoleon Bonaparte and was also launched with 14 other museums outside Paris in 1801 in life. 1810 large collection of Francois Cacault was purchased. Since 1900, it is located in the current building, which was built as a museum by Clément -Marie Josso. It has two floors around a covered courtyard. Since 2011 it is closed due to construction and will be expanded from 11,000 to 18,000 square feet.
Collection
One focus of the collection is on the Italian Trecento: The Florentine School and the School of Siena are well represented. Works by Perugino, Lorenzo di Bicci, Cosmè Tura, Andrea Solari, Giovan Battista Moroni are shown.
The 17th century is represented by still lifes and landscapes Italian painter Guido Reni, Luca Giordano, Giuseppe Recco, Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione, Orazio Gentileschi; in addition there are French works as the night pieces by Georges de la Tour. Netherlandish painting is represented by Peter Paul Rubens, Gaspar de Crayer, Matthias Stomer, Gerrit van Honthorst, Hendrik Goltzius, Jan Breughel the Elder, Adam Frans van der Meulen, Peter Lely or Marinus van Reymerswaele.
For the 19th -century works by Eugène Delacroix, Henri Rousseau, Jean -Baptiste Camille Corot, Jean -Auguste -Dominique Ingres ( Portrait of Madame de Senonnes, 1814), Jean -Léon Gérôme, Paul Baudry, along with landscape painters such as Maxim and Maufra Edward Burne -Jones, but also James Tissot.
Modernity in the Twentieth Century is by the Fauvism ( Raoul Dufy and Robert Delaunay ), Paul Signac, Jean Metzinger, Claude Monet, Kees van Dongen, Raoul Dufy, Max Ernst (La Forêt), Wassily Kandinsky, Maurice Denis, Tamara de Lempicka and Jean Tinguely represented.
The Contemporary Art presents works by Maurizio Cattelan, photographs of Gilbert & George, installations of Christian Boltanski and Paintings by Gerhard Richter.