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.

References:

Wikipedia

Museums in France

Address

Rue Paul Belmondo, Orléans, France

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Details

Founded: 1797
Category: Museums in France

More Information

en.wikipedia.org
www.orleans.fr

Rating

4.4/5 (based on Google user reviews)

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User Reviews

Arminder Singh (2 months ago)
Very strange

Agung Alfiansyah (4 months ago)
it is so great, although not so big

Gregory Benjamin (5 months ago)
Very good. The floor was very squeaky in trainers lol

Bertrand FB (6 months ago)
Very positively surprised by this provincial museum filled with artistic treasure such as an original Lempicka. Well disposed.

Agata Kamińska (11 months ago)
Fantastic place

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