Le musée des Beaux-Arts - Orléans, France
N 47° 54.158 E 001° 54.542
31T E 418466 N 5306054
[FR] Ce musée figure parmi les plus riches et les plus anciens musées français. [EN] Founded in 1797, it is one of France's oldest provincial museums. Its collections cover European arts from the 15th to 20th century.
Waymark Code: WMQA3Y
Location: Centre-Val-de-Loire, France
Date Posted: 01/20/2016
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[FR] Sa collection permanente, qui couvre la création artistique du XVe au XXe siècle, présente un ensemble exceptionnel de peintures italiennes, flamandes et hollandaises, ainsi qu'un important fonds d'oeuvres françaises des XVII et XVIIIe siècles dont un remarquable cabinet des pastels, le deuxième de France après le Louvre. Outre 2.000 peintures et 700 sculptures, le musée possède une collection de 10.000 dessins et 50.000 estampes.
[EN] The museum owns circa 2,000 paintings (with paintings by Correggio, Annibale Carracci, Guido Reni, Sebastiano Ricci, Diego Velázquez, Anthony van Dyck, Antoine Watteau, François Boucher, Hubert Robert, Eugène Delacroix (Head of a Woman), Gustave Courbet, Paul Gauguin and 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 of the Louvre.
Name: Le musée des Beaux-Arts
Location: 1 rue Fernand Rabier
45 000 Orléans
Phone Number: 02 38 79 21 55
Web Site: [Web Link]
Agency/Ownership: Public
Hours of operation: Mardi au samedi : 10h -18h (accueil des scolaires dès 9h30)
Vendredi jusqu’à 20h
Dimanche : 13h à 18h
Admission Fee: €4 billet jumellé avec le musée d'archéologie
Gift Shop: yes
Cafe/Restaurant: no
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