Musée Fabre
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The Musée Fabre is a museum in the French city of Montpellier, capital of the Hérault département.
The museum was founded by François-Xavier Fabre, a Montpellier painter, in 1825. Currently, starting in 2002 and lasting until 2007, the museum is underoing extensive renovation for 61,2 million euro. It is one of the main sights of Montpellier and close to the city's main square, the Place de la Comédie.
[edit] Collection
On display are Ceramics from Greece and the rest of Europe. Furthermore, the museum has a large collection of paintings from the 17th until the 19th century, with a large representation of the luminophiles movement. There is also sculpture.
Painting from the 17th and 18th century:
French:
- Sébastien Bourdon
- Jacques-Louis David (Hector, Portrait of Doctor Alphonse Leroy)
- Gaspard Dughet
- Jean-Baptiste Greuze (Le Petit Paresseux, Twelfth Night Cake)
- Nicolas Poussin (Venus and Adonis)
- Simon Vouet
Outside of France:
- Alessandro Allori (Venus and Cupid) image
- Il Guercino
- Peter Paul Rubens
- Jacob Isaakszoon van Ruysdael
- David Teniers the Younger
- Paolo Veronese
- Francisco Zurbarán (The Angel Gabriel)
Painting from the 19th and 20th century, with a number of Fauvist painters:
- Frédéric Bazille (Vue de village, Aigues-Mortes, La Toilette, Atelier de la rue Furstenberg)
- Gustave Courbet (The Bathers or Les Baigneuses,
- Eugène Delacroix (Fantasia, Algerian women in their room)
- Kees van Dongen (Portrait of Fernande Olivier)
- Raoul Dufy
- Jean Hugo
- Albert Marquet
- Pierre Soulages
- Nicolas de Staël
- Claude Viallat
- Vincent Bioulès
- Maria Helena Vieira da Silva
Sculpture
- Antoine Bourdelle
- Jean-Antoine Houdon (Summer, Winter)
- Aristide Maillol
- Germaine Richier
