Permanent collections Musée des Beaux-Arts d'Angers

les génies des arts françois boucher (1703-1770)



gianciotto discovers paolo , francesca jean auguste dominique ingres (1780–1867)

works many gifts, bequests, deposits or acquisitions located in historic rooms of museum. 900 of them exposed on 1700 account museum of fine arts. 150 underwent fundamental restoration during construction. divided 2 separate permanent tours:

the fine art tour

this tour presents rich collection of paintings punctuated artwork , sculptures tells chronologically different artistic movements fourteenth twenty first centuries. 2 rooms on first floor, restored historic buildings society, devoted 14th-century primitives (french, italian , flemish) , objects of art late middle ages , renaissance, northern, french , italian schools of 16th , 17th centuries. these rooms hold works of segna di bonaventura, benvenuto tisi, jehan bellegambe, jan brueghel elder, hendrick van balen, frans franken, jacob jordaens (self portrait), nicolaes pieterszoon berchem, jan asselijn, jan van kessel, willem van mieris, jacob van ruisdael, theodoor van thulden, jacob foppens van es, david teniers younger, philippe de champaigne, charles le brun, charles de la fosse, jacques stella, pierre mignard, antoine coypel, sisto badalocchio, pier francesco mola, giovanni battista vanni, lorenzo lippi (allegory of simulation), luca giordano, francesco solimena, francesco guardi , of giambattista tiepolo famous apotheosis of pisani house, sketch ceiling of villa pisani @ stra in veneto.

on second floor, visitors can discover works of eighteenth in reigns of louis xv , louis xvi, , large paintings of nineteenth century. eighteenth century french strong point of museum collections, there paintings of antoine watteau, françois desportes, carle van loo, jean-honoré fragonard (two sketches, hunt , surprise, paintings cephalus , procris, jupiter, guise of diana, seduced callisto, , coresus callirrhoe , sketch, nymph lo , jupiter), françois boucher, jean-francois de troy, noel halle, nicolas lancret, jean-baptiste pater, jean-baptiste chardin masterful still lifes, jean-baptiste greuze, hubert robert, françois-andré vincent, jacques-louis david , joseph-marie vien. among sculptures famous bust of voltaire jean-antoine houdon. first half of nineteenth century represented works of ingres, pierre-narcisse guérin, camille corot, ary scheffer, eugène devéria, pierre puvis de chavannes , others.

upstairs, large room dedicated modern art of twentieth century , contemporary art, , on ground floor gumery room has large canvases late nineteenth century , sculptures. these include works pierre-narcisse guérin, henri gervex , other large academic pictures of nineteenth century. second half of century presents works of eugène boudin, johan barthold jongkind, claude monet, alfred sisley, henri lebasque , albert lebourg. twentieth century museum includes maurice denis, maxime maufra, louis valtat , angevin alexis mérodack-jeaneau, contemporary works of françois morellet, jean-pierre pincemin , daniel tremblay.

the history of angers tour

a gallery of archaeological artifacts , works of decorative art has been created collections of former museum of antiquities, excavations @ angers , acquisitions. shows development of city of angers origins contemporary urban development projects. old , new archaeological discoveries reveal first traces of site in neolithic , creation of gallo-roman city named juliomagus. fragments of stone , wood evoke sculptural decoration of churches , wooden-walled houses. social, economic , cultural importance illustrated iconography: portraits, city views , photographs.