Grand Musée d'Art
| Musée des beaux-arts de Nantes | |
Musée des beaux-arts de Nantes
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 Location within Nantes
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| Established | 1801 |
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| Location | Nantes, France |
| Coordinates | 47°13′10″N 1°32′50″W / 47.219415°N 1.547152°W |
| Type | Fine arts |
| Website | www.museedesbeauxarts.nantes.fr |
The Fine Arts Museum of Nantes was created as 14 other museums in Province, by consular decree fructidor in the year 1801 of stopped construction on December 14. Today the museum is one of the largest museums in the region.
The facades, the roof and the stairs is the building that houses collections are registered under the title historical monuments since October 29, 1975.
On December 18, 2011, the museum closed its doors for an initial duration of 2 years at a maximum, to carry through with extensive expansion work. As a result of the discovery of the presence of water underground in the fountains, the reopening of the equipment will be renamed “Art Museum of Nantes” was postponed, and will be postponed in early 2017 for the entire museum.
Founded under the Consulate, the Fine Arts Museum of Nantes receives work purchased by state and the central museum deposits (the Louvre). It takes from the 19th century where it was an important place in the French public collections through the purchase by the city of Nantes in the collection of the brothers Pierre and François Cacault. The fund, with major works, were later supplemented by several other direct or law given gifts, and a purchasing policy supported by the friends of the museum. Compounding this today adds to this rich set of deposits of work of the Regional Contemporary Art Funds of the Loire and the Centre Pompidou.
The museum offers an overview of all the main French and European art movements, which places its collections among the largest public collections of province alongside some of Museums of Fine Arts of Valenciennes, Grenoble, Lyon, Lille and Montpellier.
It benefits in 1804 and 1809 to send to the state of 43 paintings taken from the reserves of the Central Museum. These works came from the former royal collection, from churches and convents of Paris of the revolutionary and Napoleonic conquests. But it is the purchase of the collection by the Cacault brothers by the city in 1810 that gives the museum of Nantes its riches and variety. According to an inventory conducted in 1818, the collection Cacault was then the richest collections of painting that existed outside of Paris, since it had 1,155 paintings, 64 sculptures, and 134 collections of prints.
It was not until 1830 that the collections were presented to the public on the floor of the hall with paintings (located on the street of Feltre to the sight of the old market of Feltre) This space quickly proved to be too small. In 1891, the city decided to build a designed to preserve and present them to the public in good conditions. A square plot near the school and the botanical garden, is chosen to host the future Palace of Fine Arts. The project was in the public competition as the “museum of paintings and sculptures.”
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