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Musée des beaux-arts d'Arras

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Musée des Beaux-Arts d'Arras
Musée des beaux-arts d'Arras is located in France
Musée des beaux-arts d'Arras
Location within France
Established1825
LocationArras, Nord-Pas-de-Calais, France
Coordinates50°21′27″N 3°31′51″E / 50.35756944°N 3.530763889°E / 50.35756944; 3.530763889
Visitors36,415 (2003)
52,467 (2004)
29,533 (2005)
28,265 (2006)
28,328 (2007)[1]

The Musée des Beaux-Arts d'Arras is located in the old Abbey of St. Vaast in Arras, in the Nord-Pas-de-Calais, France.

Collection

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Fragment of a capital, representing "Avarice",(12th century)
Head of Christ, fragment of a stone sculpture (13th century).
Reliquary-phylactery of the tooth of Saint-Nicolas (13th century).
Gravestone of Guillaume Lefranchois (1446).

Paintings

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The museum's collection includes paintings of the Flemish and Dutch schools including Jehan Bellegambe, Pieter Brueghel the Younger, Peter Wtewael, Balthasar van der Ast, Peter Paul Rubens, Gerard Seghers, Jacob Foppens van Es, Barent Fabritius, Nicolaes Maes and Gerbrand van den Eeckhout. From the Italian school there are works by Jacopo Bassano and paintings from the "nine muses" series of Giovanni Baglione. There are also French paintings by artists such as Claude Vignon, Philippe de Champaigne, Gaspard Dughet, Jean Jouvenet, Sébastien Bourdon, Laurent de La Hyre, Charles Le Brun, Joseph Parrocel, Nicolas de Largillière, Jean-Baptiste Oudry, Charles-André van Loo, Louis Joseph Watteau, Joseph-Marie Vien, Camille Corot, Théodore Rousseau, Théodore Chassériau, Eugène Delacroix...

Some of the works that are displayed are:

Sculptures

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Sculptures include:

  • Fragment of a capital, representing "Avarice", made in the 12th century.
  • Head of Christ, fragment of a stone sculpture made in the 13th century.
  • Virgin and Child, polychrome wood sculpture made in the 14th century by an anonymous author from Flanders.
  • Gravestone of Guillaume Lefranchois (1446).
  • Saint-Sébastien, wooden sculpture made in the 15th century by an anonymous author from the Southern Netherlands or the Rhineland.
  • Education of the Virgin, polychrome wooden statue, made in the 16th century by an anonymous sculptor.
  • "Saint Nicolas", polychrome wooden statue made by an unknown sculptor from the 16th century
  • La Famille, de Émile Joseph Nestor Carlier, (1849-1928)

Objets d'art

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The most notable of the collection of art objects are:

  • The Reliquary-phylactery of the tooth of Saint-Nicolas (13th century).
  • The angels of Humbert and the angels of Saudemont date from 1260-1270 with a height of 1.30m, gold-plated matte and gloss for those Saudemont. These are fine examples of the quality of medieval sculpture in northern France. They are classified as historical monuments since 29 November 1958. The originals are in the museum, while copies are contained in one of the chapels of Saudemont and the Humbert church.
  • .The reliquary-phylactery of the tooth of Saint Nicolas (13th century)
  • Medieval funerary mask.
L'un des anges d'Humbert.
L'autre ange d'Humbert.
Medieval funerary mask.
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References

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  1. ^ Veille Info Tourisme Archived 2010-03-14 at the Wayback Machine, page 131
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