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Musée des beaux-arts de Morlaix

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]

Musée des Beaux-Arts de Morlaix
Established1889 Edit this on Wikidata
LocationFrance Edit this at Wikidata
Coordinates48°34′37″N 3°49′30″W / 48.57685°N 3.82505°W / 48.57685; -3.82505
Visitors24,366 (2002),[1] 18,049 (2017),[1] 26,415 (2016),[1] 20,369 (2012),[1] 19,203 (2007),[1] 25,016 (2015),[1] 26,135 (2014),[1] 21,055 (2013),[1] 25,085 (2003),[1] 17,836 (2006),[1] 22,276 (2004),[1] 18,857 (2009),[1] 34,410 (2008),[1] 24,366 (2001),[1] 22,303 (2005),[1] 18,741 (2011),[1] 19,792 (2010),[1] 11,958 (2019),[1] 10,888 (2018)[1]
Musée des beaux-arts de Morlaix is located in France
Musée des beaux-arts de Morlaix
Location of Musée des beaux-arts de Morlaix
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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.

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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 edit

  1. ^ 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
  2. ^ "Morlaix: Musée des Beaux Arts". France: TripAdvisor. Retrieved 30 November 2016.
  3. ^ The collections, Musée des beaux-arts de Morlaix. Archived 2015-04-23 at the Wayback Machine

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