- Musée des Beaux-Arts de Nantes
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Coordinates: 47°13′10″N 1°32′50″E / 47.219415°N 1.547152°E
Fine Arts Museum of Nantes Musée des Beaux-Arts de Nantes 
Musée des Beaux-Arts de NantesEstablished 1801 Location Nantes, France Type Fine arts Website www.museedesbeauxarts.nantes.fr The Fine arts Museum of Nantes (French: Musée des Beaux-Arts de Nantes) is an art museum in Nantes, France.
The museum was created in 1801 with the purchase of the Cacault collection and was located in is actual Palais des Beaux-Arts since 1900.
In 2009, the architect Stanton Williams won an international competition to transform the museum with a modern extension to become the Grand Musée d’Art.[1] This is due for completion in 2013.
Collection
Artworks in the collection notably include paintings from the 13th century to modern art by painter such as:
- Ancient painting (13th century to 18th century):
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- Georges de La Tour: 3 paintings
- Peter Lely
- Giovanni Battista Moroni
- Perugino
- Guido Reni
- Peter Paul Rubens
- Andrea Solario
- Tintoretto
- Cosme Tura
- Simon Vouet
- Antoine Watteau
- 19th century and 20th century painting:
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- Eugène Boudin
- Camille Corot
- Courbet: The Wheat Sifters
- Delacroix
- Sonia Delaunay
- Maurice Denis
- Kees Van Dongen
- Jean Dubuffet
- Georges Dufrénoy
- Raoul Dufy
- Max Ernst
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- Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres
- Wassily Kandinsky: 11 paintings including Herunter
- Fernand Léger
- Albert Marquet
- Claude Monet
- Giuseppe Penone
- Pablo Picasso
- Auguste Renoir
- Théodore Rousseau
- Paul Signac
- Alfred Sisley
Gallery
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Léon Comerre, "Le Déluge"
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Jean Paul Laurens
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Hippolyte Flandrin
References
- ^ "Grand Musée d’Art". Europaconcorsi. 2010. http://europaconcorsi.com/projects/117715-Grand-Mus-e-d-Art. Retrieved October 20, 2011.
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