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Lyon, Musée des Beaux-Arts

  • News Items : Hennequin and Puvis de Chavannes : Two Acquisitions for Lyon 19/04/2014

    Currently staging one of the best exhibitions available at the moment, the Musée des Beaux-Arts in Lyon continues its very dynamic acquisitions policy (other pieces will be presented shortly). It recently purchased two studies, one painted, the (...)

    Lire la suite par Didier Rykner

  • News Items : The Lyon Museum Finally Acquires Two Landscapes by Fragonard 03/09/2013

    2/9/13 - Acquisitions - Lyon, Musée des Beaux-Arts - The Musée des Beaux-Arts in Lyon, which had launched a fundraising appeal in December 2012 in order to acquire two paintings by Fragonard, The Rock and The Watering Hole, owned by a private (...)

    Lire la suite par Bénédicte Bonnet Saint-Georges

  • News Items : Successful Fundraiser for the Musée des Beaux-Arts in Lyon 04/01/2013

    The museum in Lyon just announced that it has met its goal in the fundraiser to acquire the Ingres painting depicting Pietro Aretino Receiving an Envoy of Charles V. The 80,000 euros still needed for the purchase, a total of 750,000 euros from (...)

    Lire la suite par Didier Rykner

  • News Items : Disappearance and Recovery of a Drawing Collection by Paul Borel 02/01/2013

    About two years ago, a young man offered the art dealer Michel Descours, in Lyon, an important ensemble of drawings by a 19th century Lyon painter, Paul Borel, which he had found at a yard sale. It did not take long for the dealer to realize (...)

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  • News Items : Lyon Wishes to Acquire Two Fragonard Works, Listed as National Treasures 10/12/2012

    The Musée des Beaux-Arts in Lyon is closing its fundraising drive for the purchase of an Ingres painting on 15 December, but it is continuing its ambitious acquisitions policy as announced yesterday in the Journal Officiel with the launch of a (...)

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  • News Items : The Musée des Beaux-Arts in Lyon Launches a Fundraiser for an Ingres 17/09/2012

    The Musée des Beaux-Arts in Lyon has just launched a fundraising drive to acquire a magnificent painting by Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres representing Aretino and Charles V's Envoy At the 1855 Salon, corresponding to the Exposition Universelle, (...)

    Lire la suite par Didier Rykner

  • News Items : Laurent Pécheux Works Recently Acquired by Museums 21/08/2012

    A look at the catalogue of the Laurent Pécheux retrospective enables us to discover several acquisitions made since 2008 of works by this artist which we had not learned of earlier and thus had not mentioned here. The exhibition now provides us (...)

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  • News Items : A Special Study Exhibition on Auguste Morisot at the Musée des Beaux-Arts in Lyon 13/08/2012

    In 2007 and 2008, the Musée des Beaux-Arts in Lyon enriched its collections through acquisitions and donations with an ensemble of stained glass windows, drawings and watercolors by the painter and glassmaker Auguste Morisot, a native of this (...)

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  • News Items : A Cretey Painting for the National Collections 16/01/2012

    A painting by Louis Cretey (from the Michel Descours collection) has joined the French public collections through acceptance in lieu. The Ministry of Culture has assigned the canvas to the Louvre which did not previously own any works by the (...)

    Lire la suite par Bénédicte Bonnet Saint-Georges

  • Exhibitions : Daniel Sarrabat (1666-1748) 11/11/2011

    A native of Lyon, who studied under Bon Boullogne and received the Grand Prix of the Académie Royale in France, Daniel Sarrabat was practically unknown before this retrospective in Bourg-en-Bresse, despite a very active career in Lyon and its (...)

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  • News Items : Gauguin’s Mysterious Water will not go to Lyon 17/03/2011

    Although we sometimes receive information which we could publish well before anyone else, we refrain from doing so in the interest of protecting a museum or historical monument, or because our source provided it under certain conditions. In many (...)

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  • News Items : Two Louis Janmot works for the Musee des Beaux-Arts in Lyon 26/12/2010

    1. Louis Janmot (1814-1892) Self-portrait, 1832 Oil on canvas - 81 x 65.5 cm Lyon, Musée des Beaux-Arts Photo : Musée des Beaux-Arts de Lyon 26/12/10 – Acquisitions – Lyon, Musee des Beaux-Arts – In 2007, the Musee des Beaux-Arts in Lyon presented (...)

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  • Exhibitions : Louis Cretey. A visionary artist between Lyon and Rome 30/10/2010

    This is one of the most interesting and innovative exhibitions currently showing in France. True, art specialists along with a few enlightened amateurs already knew Louis Cretey. But, with the exception of perhaps Michel Descours, the collector (...)

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  • News Items : Fundraising : A Gauguin for Lyon 24/06/2010

    The Commission consultative des trésors nationaux has just listed a painted relief by Paul Gauguin, currently in a private collection abroad, in this category. The Musée des Beaux-Arts in Lyon, which wishes to acquire the work, has launched a (...)

    Lire la suite par Didier Rykner

  • Exhibitions : Dess|e|ins italiens (Italian Drawings) 31/08/2008

    The Musée des Beaux-Arts de Lyon’s graphic collection is not well-known and generally speaking underrated, except for 19th century French drawings which have been showcased in several exhibitions and publications. It would be surprising, however, (...)

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  • Exhibitions : Poussin and research : Serisier The Flight into Egypt under discussion 22/06/2008

    Nicolas Poussin never painted the moon, I would venture to say. Just like Philippe de Champaigne, he knew how to paint the spiritual in art, but unlike the latter who dared, and successfully so, to represent celestial phenomena, Poussin’s world (...)

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  • Exhibitions : Nicolas Poussin. The Flight into Egypt 16/05/2008

    The museum in Lyon managed to obtain the deposit of The Flight into Egypt by Nicolas Poussin, in danger of being sold abroad, after the Ministry of Culture listed it as a “national treasure” and as a result of Sylvie Ramond’s patient fundraising (...)

    Lire la suite par Daniel Couty