Musée des Beaux-Arts d'Orléans, Orléans, France

The Musée des beaux-arts d'Orléans (the Museum of Fine Arts) was founded in 1797 and is one of France's oldest provincial museums. Its collections cover the period from the 15th to 20th centuries. The museum owns 2,000 paintings (Correggio, Annibale Carracci, Guido Reni, Sebastiano Ricci, Diego Velázquez, Anthony ban Dyck, Antoine Watteau, François Boucher, Hubert Robert, Eugène Delacroix, Gustave Courbet, Paul Gauguin, Pablo Picasso), 700 sculptures (Baccio Bandinelli,Auguste Rodin), more than 1,200 pieces of decorative arts, 10,000 drawings, 50,000 prints and the second largest collection of pastels in France after that in the Louvre.

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Arminder Singh (2 years ago)
Very strange

Agung Alfiansyah (2 years ago)
it is so great, although not so big

Gregory Benjamin (2 years ago)
Very good. The floor was very squeaky in trainers lol

Bertrand FB (2 years ago)
Very positively surprised by this provincial museum filled with artistic treasure such as an original Lempicka. Well disposed.

Agata Kamińska (2 years ago)
Fantastic place

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