Virginia Museum of Fine Arts

Virginia Museum of Fine Arts is an art museum in Richmond.

The museum opened in 1936. Owners of the museum is the U.S. state of Virginia. The museum building was designed in 1934 by the American architect Merrill Lee.

1947, the collection of the American entrepreneur John Lee Pratt Museum. Included, among other things, five Fabergé eggs for this collection. From 1948 to 1968, Leslie Cheek, Jr., director of the museum.

Gallery

Artemisia Gentileschi, Cupid and Venus

Nicolas Poussin, Achilles on Skyros, 1656

Élisabeth Vigée -Lebrun, Portrait of the Comte de Vaudreuil, 1784

Angelica Kauffmann, Cornelia, Mother of the Gracchi, 1785

Junius Brutus Stearns, Washington as a Farmer at Mount Vernon, 1851

Eugène Delacroix, Amadis Delivers Princess Olga of Galpans Castle, 1860

Gustave Caillebotte, Boater Docking His Skiff, 1878

Henri Rousseau, Tropical Landscape: American Indian fighting with a gorilla, 1910

John Singer Sargent, The Sketchers, 1914.