| Musée des Beaux-Arts de Bordeaux | |
| Location: | 20, cours d'Albret33000 Bordeaux |
| Visitors: | 117,492 (2014)[1] |
| Publictransit: | Tramway, lines A and B, stop Hôtel de ville |
The Musée des Beaux-Arts de Bordeaux is the fine-art museum of the city of Bordeaux, France. The museum is housed in a dependency of the Palais Rohan in central Bordeaux. Its collections include paintings, sculptures and drawings from the 15th century to the 20th century. The largest collection is composed of paintings, and its strong points are works by French, Flemish painters and Dutch painters.
In front of the building, there is the Galerie des Beaux-Arts, where temporary exhibitions are housed.
Established in 1801[2] by the painter Pierre Lacour,[3] it is one of the largest art galleries in France outside Paris. The museum holds several paintings that were looted by the French during the French Revolution (the French: saisies révolutionnaires) such as the Martyrdom of Saint Georges by Peter Paul Rubens.[4]
First hosted in a library and then in a room of the town hall, the collection was moved into the current building after its construction from 1875 to 1881. The French: Galerie des Beaux-Arts was built later, from 1936 to 1939.
Here is a list of some of the painters represented in the museum collections:
Naples, the steamer
Landscape of Cagnes
Moroccan prisoners
Three paintings
Diana bathing
The banks of the Oise
L'homme bleu sur la route (La montée de Cagnes)
Low Tide at Étaples
Greece on the ruins of Missolonghi
Portrait of Bevilacqua
Still life with meat
The Triumph of Venus
Olga reading
Idyll Ibiza