Musée des beaux-arts d'Arras

Musée des beaux-arts d'Arras
Location within France
Established 1825
Location Arras, Nord-Pas-de-Calais, France
Coordinates 50°21′27″N 3°31′51″E / 50.35756944°N 3.530763889°E / 50.35756944; 3.530763889
Visitors

36,415 (2003)

52,467 (2004)

29,533 (2005)

28,265 (2006)

28,328 (2007)[1]

The Musée des beaux-arts d'Arras is located in the old Abbey of St. Vaast in Arras, in the Nord-Pas-de-Calais, France.

Collection

Paintings

The museum's collection includes paintings of the Flemish and Dutch schools including Jehan Bellegambe, Pieter Brueghel the Younger, Peter Wtewael, Balthasar van der Ast, Peter Paul Rubens, Gerard Seghers, Jacob Foppens van Es, Barent Fabritius, Nicolaes Maes and Gerbrand van den Eeckhout. From the Italian school there are works by Jacopo Bassano and paintings from the "nine muses" series of Giovanni Baglione. There are also French paintings by artists such as Claude Vignon, Philippe de Champaigne, Gaspard Dughet, Jean Jouvenet, Sébastien Bourdon, Laurent de La Hyre, Charles Le Brun, Joseph Parrocel, Nicolas de Largillière, Jean-Baptiste Oudry, Charles-André van Loo, Louis Joseph Watteau, Joseph-Marie Vien, Camille Corot, Théodore Rousseau, Théodore Chassériau, Eugène Delacroix...

Some of the works that are displayed are:

Sculptures

Sculptures include:

Objets d'art

The most notable of the collection of art objects are:

L'un des anges d'Humbert.
L'autre ange d'Humbert.

Gallery

References

Citations

Sources

External links Présentation du musée sur le site officiel de l'Association des conservateurs des musées du Nord-Pas de Calais

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