Musée des beaux-arts de Morlaix

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The Musée des beaux-arts de Morlaix is a fine arts museum in Morlaix, Brittany, France.^[2] It is also known as the Musée des Jacobins, since it opened in a former Jacobin convent (confiscated after the French Revolution) in 1889.^{[citation needed]}

Collections

Its main works include Venus and Adonis by Giovanni Francesco Romanelli, The Martyrdom of Saint Bartholomew by Sébastien Bourdon and The Death of Hector by Joseph-Marie Vien.^{[citation needed]} 19th century art is represented by Portrait of madame Andler by Gustave Courbet, The Pardon of Méros by Théophile Deyrolle, The Chemin de Bas-fort-Blanc by Élodie La Villette, A grain by Eugène Boudin and Rain at Belle-île by Claude Monet.^[3]

On his death in 1920, the painter Louis-Marie Baader left over 70 works to the museum.^{[citation needed]} In 1927 it acquired 19 paintings and 4 drawings by the Australian artist John Peter Russell who had lived in Belle-Île-en-Mer. In 1999 it acquired the decorative features designed by Maurice Denis for his house of Perros-Guirec and an oil on canvas of 1906 by Armand Berton : Toilette after bathing.

Pierre-Émile Barthélémy: Shipwreck on the coast of Brittany (1851)
Jules Noël: The knife grinder in Morlaix (c 1869)
Gabriel Guay: Un viellard dans un jardin (by 1899)

References

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j ^k ^l ^m ⁿ ^o ^p ^q ^r ^s Ministry of Culture, Fréquentation des Musées de France (in French), Ministry of Culture, Wikidata Q29914460
^ "Morlaix: Musée des Beaux Arts". France: TripAdvisor. Retrieved 30 November 2016.
^ The collections, Musée des beaux-arts de Morlaix. Archived 2015-04-23 at the Wayback Machine