Musée Des Beaux-arts De Morlaix
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. 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.
On his death in 1920, the painter Louis-Marie Baader left over 70 works to the museum. 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.
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Pierre-Émile Barthélémy: Shipwreck on the coast of Brittany (1851)
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Jules Noël: The knife grinder in Morlaix (c 1869)
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Gabriel Guay: Un viellard dans un jardin (by 1899)
References
- ^ Ministry of Culture of France, 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
External links
- Official website (in French)