Musée Fabre

The Musée Fabre is a museum in the southern French Montpellier. It was founded in 1825 by the painter François -Xavier Fabre. The collector and patron Alfred Bruyas worked here as a curator and left the museum a large part of his collection. Between 2003 and January 2007, it was extensively renovated.

Collection

The museum houses about 1,800 paintings, 4,000 drawings, 1,500 graphics and a few hundred sculptures (as of 2007). Since its reopening in 2007 about 800 objects are shown in the presence exhibition.

Vue de village ( Frédéric Bazille )

Frédéric Bazille (Pierre -Auguste Renoir)

Saint Agatha (Francisco de Zurbarán )

Venus and Cupid ( Alessandro Allori )