Fine arts museum in Bordeaux
Description
The Musée des Beaux-Arts de Bordeaux is the fine arts museum of the city of Bordeaux, France. Established in 1801 by the painter Pierre Lacour, it is one of the largest art galleries of France outside Paris. The museum is housed in a dependency of the Palais Rohan in central Bordeaux. Its collections regroup paintings, sculptures and drawings. The painting collection is the largest one and its strong points are works by French and Dutch painters. The museum holds several paintings that were looted by the French during the French revolution (so-called 'saisies révolutionnaires') and were never returned to their lawful owners such as the Martyrdom of Saint Georges by Peter Paul Rubens.
Expansion plans
In 2009, plans for a new museum building designed by David Chipperfield were launched. Originally due to open in 2018, the €55 million project was later pushed back until 2020. The expansion was necessary not least because more space is required to take up a promised donation of 663 works by Tsuguharu Foujita.
Painting Collection
Here is a list of some of the painters represented in the museum collections:
- Abraham Govaerts
- Abraham Hondius
- Albert Marquet : Naples, the steamer
- Alessandro Magnasco
- Alfred Smith
- Allan Ramsay
- André Lhote
- Antoine-Jean Gros
- Antonio Bellucci
- Anthony van Dyck
- Artus Wolffort
- Auguste Renoir : Landcape of Cagnes
- Jean-Joseph Benjamin-Constant : Morrocan prisoners
- Benjamin West : 3 paintings
- Camille Corot : Diana bathing
- Camille Roqueplan
- Carle Vernet
- Horace Vernet
- Carle Vernet
- Charles-François Daubigny : The banks of the Oise
- Chaïm Soutine : L'homme bleu sur la route (La montée de Cagnes)
- Domenico Pellegrini
- Édouard Joseph Dantan
- Eugène Boudin : Low Tide at Étaples
- Eugène Delacroix : Greece on the ruins of Missolonghi
- Eugène Isabey
- François-André Vincent
- Félix Ziem
- Giacomo Legi
- Giorgio Vasari
- Giambattista Pittoni
- Giovanni Boldini
- Giovanni Do
- Hendrick Ter Brugghen
- Henri Gervex
- Henri Martin
- Henri Matisse : Portrait of Bevilacqua
- Herman van Swanevelt
- Jacques Blanchard
- Jacques Raymond Brascassat
- Jan Davidsz de Heem
- Jan Brueghel the Younger
- Jan Porcellis
- Jan van Goyen
- Jean Restout
- Jean Siméon Chardin : Still life with meat
- Jean-Baptiste Perronneau
- Jean-Joseph Taillasson
- Jean-Léon Gérôme
- Jean-Marc Nattier
- Jean-Paul Laurens
- Jean-Pierre Alexandre Antigna
- Johann Friedrich August Tischbein
- Johan Joseph Zoffany : The Triumph of Venus
- John Lewis Brown
- Joos de Momper
- Joshua Reynolds
- Perugino
- Louis Valtat
- Luca Giordano
- Léon Cogniet
- Mary Cassatt
- Melchior d'Hondecoeter
- Narcisse Virgilio Díaz
- Nicolas Maes
- Odilon Redon
- Oskar Kokoschka
- Pablo Picasso : Olga reading
- Paul Baudry
- Paolo Veronese
- Pierre Bonnard
- Pietro da Cortona
- Pierre-Narcisse Guérin
- Peter Paul Rubens
- Rigoberto Perez Soler :Idyll Ibiza
- Théodore Gudin
- Thomas Couture
- Thomas Lawrence
- Tiziano Vecellio known as Titian
- Trophime Bigot
- William-Adolphe Bouguereau
Street view
Reviews
09.10.2021
Loved the exhibition. Beautiful paintimgs and sculptures. It is divided in two buildings. Make sure you keep your ticket to show in the other building.
09.10.2021
A rich collection of Arts from various period with a reasonable ticket price. I love the Ophelia painting.
09.10.2021
Well organized, friendly staff. It is possible to photograph the works on display. At the entrance they had technical problems to get us tickets. We were made to make the visit........We had paid for in the end........instead, you are excused.....(It wasn't anyone's fault).....and not made us pay for it.☺
09.10.2021
Various categories of paintings. Religious of not, the time agreed for work mainly. For a long time watching live is it OK for the visit of great people came to visit, Museum staff and police quickly out of the promotion, leaving the library.
09.10.2021
A super museum of art, he makes the visit when it is the heritage days. To make absolutely when it is in Bordeaux and that you love the museums.
09.10.2021
The museum has a great collection of fine arts held in two separate buildings. The natural lighting in the first building is from the ceiling which means that viewing some of the paintings on a bright day is difficult because of reflection/glare. However, don't let this distract from the stunning pieces on display.
09.10.2021
A lovely way to spend a few hours on an overcast Sunday afternoon. It has a lovely selection of fine art and sculpture with plenty of famous names.. Matisse and Rubens to name a few.
09.10.2021
not large but interesting. not many works of the big-name artists that we see in like orsay or louvre, but there are indeed some inspiring pieces. not crowded, so it's a good place to sit down and study just one certain work. and very lovely staffs! the old gentleman at the entrance of the north wing even said thank you to me in my mother tongue. but well, it's true that not all works there are of top quality, the problems of several are obvious (one arm much longer than the other in a classical painting, for example). the architecture itself and the garden are beautiful though.
09.10.2021
I've never been that close to a Rembrandt before (well, now "school of Rembrandt", actually) - and not under glass. No-one breathing down your neck, either. There are some small Manets and a few other big names. Non-flash photography is permitted. I went on a Sunday and it was free.
27.06.2018
Nice exhibits. Very nicely curated. We certainly enjoyed our visit.
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