Palais des Beaux-Arts de Lille
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The Palais des Beaux-Arts de Lille (Lille Palace of Fine Arts) is one of the largest museums in France, and the largest French museum outside of Paris.

It was one of the first museums built in France, established under the instructions of Napoleon I
Napoleon I
Napoleon Bonaparte was a French military and political leader during the latter stages of the French Revolution.As Napoleon I, he was Emperor of the French from 1804 to 1815...

 at the beginning of the 19th century as part of the popularisation of art : Jean-Antoine Chaptal
Jean-Antoine Chaptal
Jean-Antoine Claude, comte Chaptal de Chanteloup was a French chemist and statesman. He established chemical works for the manufacture of the mineral acids, soda and other substances...

's decree of 1801 selected fifteen French cities (among which Lille) to receive the works seized from churches and from the territories occupied by the armies of Revolutionary France. The painters Louis Joseph Watteau
Louis Joseph Watteau
Louis Joseph Watteau , known as the Watteau of Lille was a French painter active in Lille...

 and François Watteau, known as the "Watteau of Lille", were heavily involved in the museum's beginnings - Louis Joseph Watteau made in 1795 the first inventory of the paintings confiscated during the Revolution, whilst his son François was deputy curator of the museum from 1808 to 1823.

The museum opened in 1809 and was initially housed in a church confiscated from the Récollets
Recollets
The Récollets were a French branch of the Roman Catholic order, the Franciscans , which developed out of a reform movement that began in the 15th century in Spain and established itself in France in Tulle in 1585, at Nevers in 1592, at Limoges in 1596 and in Paris in 1603...

 before being transferred to the city's town hall. In 1866, the "musée Wicar", formed from the collection of Jean-Baptiste Wicar
Jean-Baptiste Wicar
Jean-Baptiste Wicar was a French Neoclassical painter and art collector.-Life:The son of a carpenter, Wicar studied drawing at the free school in Lille before further honing his talents in the studio of David...

, was merged into the Palais des Beaux-Arts. Construction of the Palais's current Belle Époque
Belle Époque
The Belle Époque or La Belle Époque was a period in European social history that began during the late 19th century and lasted until World War I. Occurring during the era of the French Third Republic and the German Empire, it was a period characterised by optimism and new technological and medical...

-style building began in 1885 under the direction of Géry Legrand, mayor of Lille, and it was completed in 1892. The architects chosen to design the new building were Edouard Bérard (1843 - 1912) and Fernand Etienne-Charles Delmas (1852 - 1933) from Paris. The building is located on the place de la République, in the center of the city, facing the préfecture of Lille. It was renovated during the 1990s and reopened in 1997.

At the start of the 1990s, the building's poor state and the moving of Vauban's relief models of fortified towns to Lille forced the town to renovate the building. Work began in 1991, under the architects Jean-Marc Ibos and Myrto Vitart, and was completed in 1997. This allowed the creation of a new 700 m² basement room for temporary exhibitions, as well as departments for the relief models and for 19th-century sculpture. Overall the museum covers 22000 m², the second largest collection in France after the Louvre. Its sculptures, paintings, drawings, ceramics and so on include works by Raphael
Raphael
Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino , better known simply as Raphael, was an Italian painter and architect of the High Renaissance. His work is admired for its clarity of form and ease of composition and for its visual achievement of the Neoplatonic ideal of human grandeur...

, Donatello
Donatello
Donato di Niccolò di Betto Bardi , also known as Donatello, was an early Renaissance Italian artist and sculptor from Florence...

, Van Dyck, Tissot
James Tissot
James Jacques Joseph Tissot was a French painter, who spent much of his career in Britain.-Biography:Tissot was born in Nantes, France. In about 1856, he began study at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris under Hippolyte Flandrin and Lamothe, and became friendly with Edgar Degas and James Abbott...

, Jordaens
Jacob Jordaens
Jacob Jordaens was one of three Flemish Baroque painters, along with Peter Paul Rubens and Anthony van Dyck, to bring prestige to the Antwerp school of painting. Unlike those contemporaries he never traveled abroad to study Italian painting, and his career is marked by an indifference to their...

, Rembrandt, Goya
Francisco Goya
Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes was a Spanish romantic painter and printmaker regarded both as the last of the Old Masters and the first of the moderns. Goya was a court painter to the Spanish Crown, and through his works was both a commentator on and chronicler of his era...

, El Greco
El Greco
El Greco was a painter, sculptor and architect of the Spanish Renaissance. "El Greco" was a nickname, a reference to his ethnic Greek origin, and the artist normally signed his paintings with his full birth name in Greek letters, Δομήνικος Θεοτοκόπουλος .El Greco was born on Crete, which was at...

, David
Jacques-Louis David
Jacques-Louis David was an influential French painter in the Neoclassical style, considered to be the preeminent painter of the era...

, Corot, Courbet
Gustave Courbet
Jean Désiré Gustave Courbet was a French painter who led the Realist movement in 19th-century French painting. The Realist movement bridged the Romantic movement , with the Barbizon School and the Impressionists...

, Toulouse-Lautrec
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
Henri Marie Raymond de Toulouse-Lautrec-Monfa or simply Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec was a French painter, printmaker, draughtsman, and illustrator, whose immersion in the colourful and theatrical life of fin de siècle Paris yielded an œuvre of exciting, elegant and provocative images of the modern...

, Delacroix
Eugène Delacroix
Ferdinand Victor Eugène Delacroix was a French Romantic artist regarded from the outset of his career as the leader of the French Romantic school...

, Rubens
Rubens
Rubens is often used to refer to Peter Paul Rubens , the Flemish artist.Rubens may also refer to:- People :Family name* Paul Rubens Rubens is often used to refer to Peter Paul Rubens (1577-1640), the Flemish artist.Rubens may also refer to:- People :Family name* Paul Rubens (composer) Rubens is...

, Rodin
Auguste Rodin
François-Auguste-René Rodin , known as Auguste Rodin , was a French sculptor. Although Rodin is generally considered the progenitor of modern sculpture, he did not set out to rebel against the past...

, Claudel
Camille Claudel
Camille Claudel was a French sculptor and graphic artist. She was the elder sister of the poet and diplomat Paul Claudel.- Early years :...

 and Jean-Baptiste Chardin.

Antiquities, Middle Ages and Renaissance

  • Ascension of the Elect, Dirk Bouts
    Dirk Bouts
    Dieric Bouts was an Early Netherlandish painter. According to Karel van Mander in his Het Schilderboeck of 1604, Bouts was born in Haarlem and was mainly active in Leuven , where he was city painter from 1468...

    , oil on wood (c 1450)
  • Fall of the Damned, Dirk Bouts
    Dirk Bouts
    Dieric Bouts was an Early Netherlandish painter. According to Karel van Mander in his Het Schilderboeck of 1604, Bouts was born in Haarlem and was mainly active in Leuven , where he was city painter from 1468...

    , oil on wood (c 1450)
  • Portrait of man, skull in a niche, Barthel Bruyn, oil on wood
  • Three donors with Saint John the Baptist, Barthel Bruyn the Younger
    Barthel Bruyn the Younger
    Bartholomäus Bruyn , usually called Barthel Bruyn the Younger to distinguish him from his father of the same name, was a German painter active in Cologne. He is noted mainly for his portraits....

    , oil on wood
  • The Virgin and the Sleeping Jesus, Joos van Cleve
    Joos van Cleve
    Joos van Cleve was a painter active in Antwerp around 1511 to 1540. He was born around 1485 and died in between 1540 and 1541...

    , oil on wood (16th century)
  • The Virgin nursing the Infant Jesus, Joos van Cleve
    Joos van Cleve
    Joos van Cleve was a painter active in Antwerp around 1511 to 1540. He was born around 1485 and died in between 1540 and 1541...

    , oil on wood (16th century)
  • Christ blessing the Virgin, Jacob Cornelisz van Amsterdam, oil on wood (16th century)
  • The Virgin, the Infant Jesus and saint Cecilia, Domenico Panetti
    Domenico Panetti
    Domenico Panetti was an Italian painter of the Renaissance period, active mainly in Ferrara. Among his early pupils was Garofalo. He painted a Deposition from the Cross for the church of San Niccolo and a Visitation for San Francesco....

  • Trinity, triptych of Marchiennes, Jean Bellegambe, oil on wood (c 1510)
  • Triptych of the mystic bath, Jehan Bellegambe
    Jehan Bellegambe
    Jehan Bellegambe or Jean Bellegambe was a French painter of religious paintings, triptychs and polyptychs, the most important of which are now held at Douai, Arras, Aix, Lille, Saint Petersburg and Chicago. He was known as the 'master of colours' for the transparency and interplay of his colours...

    , oil on wood (1510)
  • Feast of Herod, Donatello
    Donatello
    Donato di Niccolò di Betto Bardi , also known as Donatello, was an early Renaissance Italian artist and sculptor from Florence...

    , marble (vers 1435)
  • Vanity, Jan Sanders van Hemessen
    Jan Sanders van Hemessen
    Jan Sanders van Hemessen was a Flemish Northern Renaissance painter. He was born in Hemiksem, then called Hemessen or Heymissen. Following studies in Italy, in 1524 he settled in Antwerp. A mannerist, his images focused on human failings such as greed and vanity...

    , oil on wood (c 1535-1540)
  • Virgin and Child surrounded by angels, Master of the foliage in embroidery, triptych, oil on wood (c 1495-1500)
  • Portraits of Louis de Quarre and Barbe de Cruysinck as donors ; saint Barbara and saint Louis on foot under arcades, Master of the foliage in embroidery, oil on wood (c 1495-1500)
  • The Virgin in glory amidst the apostles, Master of the Lyversberg Passion, oil on wood (c 1460-1480)
  • Adoration of the Shepherds, Maîster of the Lille Adoration, oil on wood (1520)
  • Preaching of saint John the Baptist, Master of the Lille Preaching, oil on wood (1530-1540)
  • Vierge au lait, Maître des Madones mosanes, marble (c 1350)
  • Adoration of the Magi, Maître MS, oil on wood (c 1506-1510)
  • Saint Dorothea and Saint Mary Magdalen, Master of saint-Séverin, two panels, oil on wood (1480-1520)
  • The Resurrection and La Vierge du rosaire, anonymous, South German, oil on wood (c 1480-1490)
  • Adoration of the Magi, anonymous, triptych, oil on wood (c 1510-1520)
  • Saint Henri and saint Cunégonde, saint Jerome and a bishop saint, predella
    Predella
    A predella is the platform or step on which an altar stands . In painting, the predella is the painting or sculpture along the frame at the bottom of an altarpiece...

     of the retable of saint George, anonymous, Tyrol, oil on wood (c 1520)
  • Saint John the Baptist and saint Catherine, anonymous, German, oil on wood (16th century)
  • Saint Barbara and two saints, anonymous, German, oil on wood (16th century)
  • Sketch for Paradise, Veronese
    Paolo Veronese
    Paolo Veronese was an Italian painter of the Renaissance in Venice, famous for paintings such as The Wedding at Cana and The Feast in the House of Levi...

    , oil on wood

17th-century paintings

  • Rest of the Holy Family, Pieter van Avont
    Pieter van Avont
    Pieter van Avont, also Peeter van Avont, was a Flemish painter, draughtsman and printmaker during the Baroque era. He was baptized 14 January 1600 in Mechelen, Flanders and died on 1 November 1652 in Deurne, Flanders....

    , oil on wood
  • Martyrdom of saint Maurice and his companions, Jan Boeckorst known as Lange Jan, oil on canvas (1661)
  • Allegory of worldly vanities, Pieter Boel
    Pieter Boel
    Pieter Boel was a Flemish Baroque painter who specialised in lavish still lifes.-Biography:Boel was born in Antwerp. He probably went to Italy in 1650. In 1668, he worked for Charles Le Brun in his first tapestry making studio...

    , oil on canvas (1663)
  • Coronation the Virgin, Thomas Willeboirts Bosschaert, oil on canvas
  • Ecstacy of saint Rosalie of Palermo, Theodor Boeyermans, oil on canvas
  • The Nativity, Philippe de Champaigne
    Philippe de Champaigne
    Philippe de Champaigne was a Flemish-born French Baroque era painter, a major exponent of the French school.-Early life:Born in Brussels of a poor family, Champaigne was a pupil of the landscape painter Jacques Fouquières...

    , oil on canvas
  • Antique landscape, Philippe de Champaigne
    Philippe de Champaigne
    Philippe de Champaigne was a Flemish-born French Baroque era painter, a major exponent of the French school.-Early life:Born in Brussels of a poor family, Champaigne was a pupil of the landscape painter Jacques Fouquières...

    , oil on canvas
  • Saint Nicolas saving the prisoners, Jan Cossiers
    Jan Cossiers
    Jan Cossiers was a Flemish Baroque painter whose earliest works were Caravaggesque genre scenes and later specialized in histories and religious subjects.-Biography:...

    , oil on canvas (1660)
  • The Miraculous Fish or The apostles reporting to Christ the fruit of their enterprise, Gaspard de Crayer, oil on wood
  • Martyrdom of the crowned martyrs : Claudius, Nicolastratus, Symphorianus, Castor and Simplicius, Gaspard de Crayer, oil on wood
  • Miracle of Saint Anthony of Padua at Toulouse, Antony van Dyck, oil on wood (c 1627-1630)
  • Christ on the cross, Antony van Dyck, oil on canvas
  • Portrait of Marie de Médicis, reine de France, Antony van Dyck
  • Christ climbing to Calvary and being recognised by saint Veronica, Frans II Francken, oil on wood (c 1615-1620)
  • Presentation of the Holy Tunic to Charles V, Frans II Francken, oil on wood (c 1615)
  • Ball on a palace terrace or ball at the court of Don John of Austria, Hieronymus Janssens known as Le danseur, oil on canvas (1658)
  • Christ and the Pharisees, Jacob Jordaens
    Jacob Jordaens
    Jacob Jordaens was one of three Flemish Baroque painters, along with Peter Paul Rubens and Anthony van Dyck, to bring prestige to the Antwerp school of painting. Unlike those contemporaries he never traveled abroad to study Italian painting, and his career is marked by an indifference to their...

    , oil on canvas (c 1660)
  • The Abduction of Europa, Jacob Jordaens
    Jacob Jordaens
    Jacob Jordaens was one of three Flemish Baroque painters, along with Peter Paul Rubens and Anthony van Dyck, to bring prestige to the Antwerp school of painting. Unlike those contemporaries he never traveled abroad to study Italian painting, and his career is marked by an indifference to their...

    , oil on canvas (1643)
  • Portrait of a man, Jacob Jordaens
    Jacob Jordaens
    Jacob Jordaens was one of three Flemish Baroque painters, along with Peter Paul Rubens and Anthony van Dyck, to bring prestige to the Antwerp school of painting. Unlike those contemporaries he never traveled abroad to study Italian painting, and his career is marked by an indifference to their...

    , oil on wood
  • Susanna and the Elders, Jacob Jordaens
    Jacob Jordaens
    Jacob Jordaens was one of three Flemish Baroque painters, along with Peter Paul Rubens and Anthony van Dyck, to bring prestige to the Antwerp school of painting. Unlike those contemporaries he never traveled abroad to study Italian painting, and his career is marked by an indifference to their...

    , oil on canvas
  • The distress of the prodigal son, Jacob Jordaens
    Jacob Jordaens
    Jacob Jordaens was one of three Flemish Baroque painters, along with Peter Paul Rubens and Anthony van Dyck, to bring prestige to the Antwerp school of painting. Unlike those contemporaries he never traveled abroad to study Italian painting, and his career is marked by an indifference to their...

  • A piqueur and his dogs, Jacob Jordaens
    Jacob Jordaens
    Jacob Jordaens was one of three Flemish Baroque painters, along with Peter Paul Rubens and Anthony van Dyck, to bring prestige to the Antwerp school of painting. Unlike those contemporaries he never traveled abroad to study Italian painting, and his career is marked by an indifference to their...

    , (1635)
  • Saint Mary Magdalene at prayer, Eustache Le Sueur
    Eustache Le Sueur
    Eustache Le Sueur or Lesueur , one of the founders of the French Academy of Painting, was born in Paris, where he passed his whole life....

    , oil on canvas
  • Burial, Pieter Lastman
    Pieter Lastman
    Pieter Lastman was a Dutch painter . Lastman is considered important because of his work as a painter of history pieces and because his pupils included Rembrandt and Jan Lievens...

    , oil on wood (1612)
  • Moses dividing the waters, Johann Liss
    Johann Liss
    Johann Liss was a leading German Baroque painter of the 17th century, active mainly in Venice.-Biography:...

    , oil on canvas
  • Saint Peter causing a cloud to protect the faithful from the sun, Jeremias Mittendorff, oil on wood (1629)
  • Martyrdom of Saint Peter of Verona, Jeremias Mittendorff, oil on canvas (1629)
  • Saint Peter unmasking a false Madonna that had appeared in a heretics' temple, Jeremias Mittendorff, oil on wood (1629)
  • Soldiers casting lots for the tunic of Christ, Nicolas Régnier
    Nicolas Régnier
    Nicolas Régnier , alternatively Niccolò Renieri in Italian, was a Flemish painter and art collector, active in Italy during the Baroque period....

  • Saint Jerome, José de Ribera, oil on canvas (1643)
  • Descent from the Cross, Rubens
    Rubens
    Rubens is often used to refer to Peter Paul Rubens , the Flemish artist.Rubens may also refer to:- People :Family name* Paul Rubens Rubens is often used to refer to Peter Paul Rubens (1577-1640), the Flemish artist.Rubens may also refer to:- People :Family name* Paul Rubens (composer) Rubens is...

    , oil on canvas (vers 1617)
  • Martyrdom of saint Catherine, Rubens
    Rubens
    Rubens is often used to refer to Peter Paul Rubens , the Flemish artist.Rubens may also refer to:- People :Family name* Paul Rubens Rubens is often used to refer to Peter Paul Rubens (1577-1640), the Flemish artist.Rubens may also refer to:- People :Family name* Paul Rubens (composer) Rubens is...

    , oil on canvas (vers 1615)
  • Ecstacy of Mary Magdalen, Rubens
    Rubens
    Rubens is often used to refer to Peter Paul Rubens , the Flemish artist.Rubens may also refer to:- People :Family name* Paul Rubens Rubens is often used to refer to Peter Paul Rubens (1577-1640), the Flemish artist.Rubens may also refer to:- People :Family name* Paul Rubens (composer) Rubens is...

    , oil on canvas (vers 1619)
  • Royal Generosity, Rubens
    Rubens
    Rubens is often used to refer to Peter Paul Rubens , the Flemish artist.Rubens may also refer to:- People :Family name* Paul Rubens Rubens is often used to refer to Peter Paul Rubens (1577-1640), the Flemish artist.Rubens may also refer to:- People :Family name* Paul Rubens (composer) Rubens is...

    , oil on canvas (1635)
  • Royal Providence, Rubens
    Rubens
    Rubens is often used to refer to Peter Paul Rubens , the Flemish artist.Rubens may also refer to:- People :Family name* Paul Rubens Rubens is often used to refer to Peter Paul Rubens (1577-1640), the Flemish artist.Rubens may also refer to:- People :Family name* Paul Rubens (composer) Rubens is...

    , oil on canvas (1635)
  • Saint François receiving the Christ Child from the Virgin's hands, Rubens
    Rubens
    Rubens is often used to refer to Peter Paul Rubens , the Flemish artist.Rubens may also refer to:- People :Family name* Paul Rubens Rubens is often used to refer to Peter Paul Rubens (1577-1640), the Flemish artist.Rubens may also refer to:- People :Family name* Paul Rubens (composer) Rubens is...

    , oil on canvas (c 1617)
  • Birth of the Virgin, Jacques Stella
    Jacques Stella
    -Life:Stella was born in Lyon. His father was François Stella, a painter and merchant of Flemish origin, but he died too soon to train Jacques in painting. Jacques's siblings included François , Françoise and Madeleine...

  • Renaud and Armide, Alessandro Tiarini
    Alessandro Tiarini
    Alessandro Tiarini was an Italian Baroque painter of the Bolognese School.He was born in Bologna. His mother died when he was a child, and he was raised by an aunt, and early on they tried, unsuccessfully to guide him towards becoming a cleric...

    , oil on canvas
  • Apotheosis of St Francis of Paul, Theodoor van Thulden
    Theodoor van Thulden
    Theodoor van Thulden was a Dutch Baroque artist from 's-Hertogenbosch in North Brabant who was active in that city and in Antwerp.-Biography:...

    , oil on wood
  • Le Martyre de saint Philippe, oil on wood (c 1645-1648)
  • Jesus's arrest in the Garden of Olives, Simon de Vos
    Simon de Vos
    Simon de Vos was a Flemish Baroque painter of genre and cabinet pictures.-Biography:De Vos studied with Cornelis de Vos , to whom he is not related, from 1615 until 1620. In 1620 he joined Antwerp's guild of St...

    , oil on copper (vers 1650-1670)
  • Jesus tried before Caiaphas, Simon de Vos
    Simon de Vos
    Simon de Vos was a Flemish Baroque painter of genre and cabinet pictures.-Biography:De Vos studied with Cornelis de Vos , to whom he is not related, from 1615 until 1620. In 1620 he joined Antwerp's guild of St...

    , oil on copper (c 1650-1670)
  • Saint Zita
    Zita
    Saint Zita was an Italian saint, the patron saint of maids and domestic servants. She is also appealed to in order to help find lost keys.-Life:...

    , Arnould de Vuez
    Arnould de Vuez
    Arnould de Vuez was a painter of Flemish origin active in Lille from 1695 to 1720.- Family and training :Arnould de Vuez was born into a minor family in Saint-Omer - his father served as a soldier in order to feed his 8 children. Arnould left his birthplace for Paris to perfect his painting...

    , oil on canvas (c 1696)
  • Saint Cecilia accompanied by three angel musicians, Arnould de Vuez
    Arnould de Vuez
    Arnould de Vuez was a painter of Flemish origin active in Lille from 1695 to 1720.- Family and training :Arnould de Vuez was born into a minor family in Saint-Omer - his father served as a soldier in order to feed his 8 children. Arnould left his birthplace for Paris to perfect his painting...

  • Mourning Virgin, Arnould de Vuez
    Arnould de Vuez
    Arnould de Vuez was a painter of Flemish origin active in Lille from 1695 to 1720.- Family and training :Arnould de Vuez was born into a minor family in Saint-Omer - his father served as a soldier in order to feed his 8 children. Arnould left his birthplace for Paris to perfect his painting...

    , oil on canvas
  • Saint Anthony of Assisi receiving the stigmata, Arnould de Vuez
    Arnould de Vuez
    Arnould de Vuez was a painter of Flemish origin active in Lille from 1695 to 1720.- Family and training :Arnould de Vuez was born into a minor family in Saint-Omer - his father served as a soldier in order to feed his 8 children. Arnould left his birthplace for Paris to perfect his painting...

    , oil on canvas
  • Interior of the Nieuwe Kerk at Delft, Emanuel de Witte
    Emanuel de Witte
    Emanuel de Witte was a Dutch perspective painter. In contrast to Pieter Jansz Saenredam, who emphasized architectural accuracy, De Witte was more concerned with the atmosphere of his interiors. Though few in number, de Witte also produced genre paintings.-Life:De Witte was born in Alkmaar and...

  • The Denarius of Caesar, Gerbrand van den Eeckhout
    Gerbrand van den Eeckhout
    Gerbrand van den Eeckhout , was a Dutch Golden Age painter and a favourite student of Rembrandt. He was also an etcher, an amateur poet, a collector and an adviser on art.-Biography:...

     (1673)
  • The Slave of Zeus, Kakhoofd van Stinkhoofd

18th- and 19th-century paintings

  • 'http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fichier:Vanity.jpg, Alfred Agache
    Alfred Agache (painter)
    Alfred-Pierre Joseph Agache , also known simply as Alfred Agache, was a French academic painter....

    , oil on canvas (1885)
  • Portrait of Madame d’Aucourt de Saint-Just, Louis Léopold Boilly, oil on canvas (c 1800)
  • Portrait of Monsieur d’Aucourt de Saint-Just, Louis Léopold Boilly, oil on canvas (c 1800)
  • Portrait, said to be of Robespierre, Louis Léopold Boilly, oil on canvas
  • Portrait of the sculptor Jean-Antoine Houdon, Louis Léopold Boilly, oil study on paper
  • Portrait of Julien Boilly enfant, Louis Léopold Boilly, oil on canvas
  • My foot of beef, Louis Léopold Boilly, oil on canvas
  • Triumph of Marat, Louis Léopold Boilly, paper on canvas
  • 23 studies for "the Studio of Isabey", Louis Léopold Boilly, paper on canvas
  • Tobias fighting his father, Bon Boullongne, oil on canvas (c 1705)
  • Lady in black, Carolus-Duran
    Carolus-Duran
    Charles Auguste Émile Durand, known as Carolus-Duran , was a French painter and art instructor. He is noted for his stylish depictions of members of high society in Third Republic France.-Biography:...

    , oil on cartoon (1859)
  • Sleeping man, Carolus-Duran
    Carolus-Duran
    Charles Auguste Émile Durand, known as Carolus-Duran , was a French painter and art instructor. He is noted for his stylish depictions of members of high society in Third Republic France.-Biography:...

    , oil on canvas (1861)
  • The Kiss, Carolus-Duran
    Carolus-Duran
    Charles Auguste Émile Durand, known as Carolus-Duran , was a French painter and art instructor. He is noted for his stylish depictions of members of high society in Third Republic France.-Biography:...

    , oil on canvas (1868)
  • Lady with a dog, Carolus-Duran
    Carolus-Duran
    Charles Auguste Émile Durand, known as Carolus-Duran , was a French painter and art instructor. He is noted for his stylish depictions of members of high society in Third Republic France.-Biography:...

    , (1870)
  • The silver goblet, Jean-Baptiste Siméon Chardin, oil on canvas (c 1730)
  • Elevation of the Cross, Alphonse Colas
    Alphonse Colas
    Alphonse-Victor Colas was a French painter....

    , (1849)
  • Idyll or Cache-Cache, Jean-Baptiste Corot
  • View of Honfleur, Gustave Courbet
    Gustave Courbet
    Jean Désiré Gustave Courbet was a French painter who led the Realist movement in 19th-century French painting. The Realist movement bridged the Romantic movement , with the Barbizon School and the Impressionists...

  • An Après-dîner at Ornans, Gustave Courbet
    Gustave Courbet
    Jean Désiré Gustave Courbet was a French painter who led the Realist movement in 19th-century French painting. The Realist movement bridged the Romantic movement , with the Barbizon School and the Impressionists...

    , oil on canvas (1848-1849)
  • Belisarius begging alms, Jacques-Louis David
    Jacques-Louis David
    Jacques-Louis David was an influential French painter in the Neoclassical style, considered to be the preeminent painter of the era...

    , oil on canvas (1781)
  • Apelles painting Campaspe in Alexander's presence, Jacques-Louis David
    Jacques-Louis David
    Jacques-Louis David was an influential French painter in the Neoclassical style, considered to be the preeminent painter of the era...

    , oil on wood (1814)
  • Medea, Eugène Delacroix
    Eugène Delacroix
    Ferdinand Victor Eugène Delacroix was a French Romantic artist regarded from the outset of his career as the leader of the French Romantic school...

    , oil on canvas (1838)
  • Hêtraie in the forest of Fontainebleau, Constant Dutilleux
    Constant Dutilleux
    Constant Dutilleux was a 19th-century French painter, illustrator and engraver. He was the great-grandfather of the composer Henri Dutilleux.-External links:...

  • The Birth of Venus, Amaury Duval
    Amaury Duval (1808-1885)
    Eugène Emmanuel Amaury Pineux Duval , better known by the pseudonym Amaury Duval, was a French painter. He was one of two sons of Amaury Duval and thus a nephew of the playwright Alexandre Pineux Duval.- Life :He was born in Montrouge...

    , oil on canvas (1862)
  • Persuasion, Cyprian Godebski
    Cyprian Godebski
    Cyprian Godebski was a Polish poet, novelist, father of Franciszek Ksawery. An outstanding poet of the so-called "Legions Poetry".-Life:...

  • The Young People or The Letter, Francisco de Goya
    Francisco Goya
    Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes was a Spanish romantic painter and printmaker regarded both as the last of the Old Masters and the first of the moderns. Goya was a court painter to the Spanish Crown, and through his works was both a commentator on and chronicler of his era...

  • The Old People or Time, Francisco de Goya
    Francisco Goya
    Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes was a Spanish romantic painter and printmaker regarded both as the last of the Old Masters and the first of the moderns. Goya was a court painter to the Spanish Crown, and through his works was both a commentator on and chronicler of his era...

    , oil on canvas (c 1808-1812)
  • Psyche crowning Love, Jean-Baptiste Greuze
    Jean-Baptiste Greuze
    Jean-Baptiste Greuze was a French painter.-Early life:He was born at Tournus, Saône-et-Loire. He is generally said to have formed his own talent; this is, however, true only in the most limited sense, for at an early age his inclinations, though thwarted by his father, were encouraged by a...

    , oil on canvas
  • Portrait of Berthe Morisot with a fan, Edouard Manet
    Édouard Manet
    Édouard Manet was a French painter. One of the first 19th-century artists to approach modern-life subjects, he was a pivotal figure in the transition from Realism to Impressionism....

  • Portrait of the artist, Odilon Redon
    Odilon Redon
    Bertrand-Jean Redon, better known as Odilon Redon was a French symbolist painter, printmaker, draughtsman and pastellist.-Life:...

    , oil on canvas (c 1880)
  • The Supper at Emmaus, Jean Restout, oil on canvas (1735)
  • Landscape at Grandcamp, Georges Seurat, oil on wood (1885)

20th-century paintings

  • Olga au col de fourrure, Pablo Picasso
    Pablo Picasso
    Pablo Diego José Francisco de Paula Juan Nepomuceno María de los Remedios Cipriano de la Santísima Trinidad Ruiz y Picasso known as Pablo Ruiz Picasso was a Spanish expatriate painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist, and stage designer, one of the greatest and most influential artists of the...

  • Rythme Coloré, Sonia Delaunay
    Sonia Delaunay
    Sonia Delaunay was a Jewish-French artist who, with her husband Robert Delaunay and others, cofounded the Orphism art movement, noted for its use of strong colours and geometric shapes. Her work extends to painting, textile design and stage set design...

  • The barn, Constant Permeke
    Constant Permeke
    Constant Permeke was a Belgian painter and sculptor who is considered the leading figure of Flemish expressionism.Permeke was born in Antwerp but when he was six years old the family moved to Ostend, where his father became curator of the Municipal Museum of Arts. Permeke went to school in Bruges...

  • Portrait of a woman, Rick Vouters
  • Poelle flamand, Edouard Pignon
  • Portrait, Ladislas Kijno
    Ladislas Kijno
    Ladislas Kijno is a French painter. Born in Warsaw, he moved with his family to France in 1925, settling in the community of Nœux-les-Mines in the Pas-de-Calais. Before becoming a painter he studied philosophy with Jean Grenier....

  • Butterfly on a wheel, Fernand Léger
    Fernand Léger
    Joseph Fernand Henri Léger was a French painter, sculptor, and filmmaker. In his early works he created a personal form of Cubism which he gradually modified into a more figurative, populist style...

  • Ecluse, Vierra da Silva
  • Composition on the word cheval, Auguste Herbin
    Auguste Herbin
    Auguste Herbin was a French painter.-Biography:Born in Quiévy, Nord, he studied drawing at the École des Beaux-Arts de Lille, from 1898 to 1901, when he settled in Paris....

  • Triptych, Lempereur Haut
  • Composition, Serge Poliakoff
    Serge Poliakoff
    Serge Poliakoff was a Russian-born French modernist painter belonging to the 'New' Ecole de Paris .- Biography :...


Sculptures

  • Penelope, Émile-Antoine Bourdelle, bronze statue (1909)
  • Charles Frédéric Kuhlmann
    Charles Frédéric Kuhlmann
    Charles Frédéric Kuhlmann was a French chemist who patented the reaction later used in the Ostwald process.He was both a research scientist and a professor at Université Lille Nord de France...

    , Albert-Ernest Carrier-Belleuse
    Albert-Ernest Carrier-Belleuse
    Albert-Ernest Carrier-Belleuse was a French sculptor and painter.- Life :Carrier-Belleuse was a student of David d'Angers and briefly at the École des Beaux-Arts...

    , marble bust (c 1868-1870)
  • The Pisan, Carolus-Duran
    Carolus-Duran
    Charles Auguste Émile Durand, known as Carolus-Duran , was a French painter and art instructor. He is noted for his stylish depictions of members of high society in Third Republic France.-Biography:...

    , bronze
  • Louise Claudel, Camille Claudel
    Camille Claudel
    Camille Claudel was a French sculptor and graphic artist. She was the elder sister of the poet and diplomat Paul Claudel.- Early years :...

    , terracotta bust
  • Giganti or Head of a brigand, Camille Claudel
    Camille Claudel
    Camille Claudel was a French sculptor and graphic artist. She was the elder sister of the poet and diplomat Paul Claudel.- Early years :...

    , bronze head
  • The Kisser, Gustave Crauk, plaster
  • Cincinnatus, Denis Foyatier
    Denis Foyatier
    Denis Foyatier was a French sculptor in the neoclassical style.-Biography:...

    , plaster statue
  • Knight errant, Emmanuel Frémiet
    Emmanuel Frémiet
    Emmanuel Frémiet was a French sculptor. He is famous for his sculpture of Joan of Arc in Paris and the monument to Ferdinand de Lesseps in Suez....

    , plaster equestrian statue (1878)
  • Narcissus, Ernest-Eugène Hiolle
    Ernest-Eugène Hiolle
    Ernest-Eugène Hiolle was a French sculptor who specialized in classical and allegorical figures in plaster and bronze, as well as many contemporary portrait busts....

    , plaster statue (c 1867-1868)
  • The Fever of Caumartin, Jean-Antoine Houdon
    Jean-Antoine Houdon
    Jean-Antoine Houdon was a French neoclassical sculptor. Houdon is famous for his portrait busts and statues of philosophers, inventors and political figures of the Enlightenment...

    , bronze-painted plaster bust (1779)
  • Camulogene
    Camulogene
    Camulogene was an Aulerci elder and leader of the 52 BC coalition of the Seine peoples according to Caesar. He put a scorched earth policy in place, burning Lutetia then trying to ensnare Titus Labienus's troops. He died in the battle of Lutetia. The Rue Camulogène in Paris is named after him....

    , Eugène-Louis Lequesne
    Eugène-Louis Lequesne
    Eugène-Louis Lequesne was a French sculptor.In 1841, he entered the École nationale des beaux-arts, in James Pradier's workshop. In 1843, he won the second Prix de Rome, and in 1844 the first prize, with a plaster bas-relief entitled Pyrrhus tuant Priam...

    , plaster statue (1872)
  • Satyr and bacchante, James Pradier
    James Pradier
    James Pradier, also known as Jean-Jacques Pradier was a Swiss-born French sculptor best known for his work in the neoclassical style.-Life and work:...

    , painted plaster (c 1833)
  • Apollo and the muses, Emile Morlaix, original plaster
  • Dying Hero, René Leleu, bronze
  • La Séve, Gaston Watkin, stone
  • Athlete, Gerard Choain, bronze
  • Joan of Arc and other pieces, Alphonse-Amédée Cordonnier
    Alphonse-Amédée Cordonnier
    Alphonse-Amédée Cordonnier was a French sculptor.Born in La Madeleine, Nord, Cordonnier was educated in nearby Lille, then in Paris, then in Rome, on a scholarship funded by the foundation of Jean-Baptiste Wicar...


Prints and drawings

  • Preparatory drawing for the "Alba Madonna". Seated man wearing a shirt, bare arms., Raphael
    Raphael
    Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino , better known simply as Raphael, was an Italian painter and architect of the High Renaissance. His work is admired for its clarity of form and ease of composition and for its visual achievement of the Neoplatonic ideal of human grandeur...

     (c 1511)

Collection of "plans-reliefs"
Plan-relief
A plan-relief is a scale model of a landscape and buildings produced for military usage, made to visualise building projects on fortifications or campaigns surrounding fortified locations.-History:...

 

  • Calais
    Calais
    Calais is a town in Northern France in the department of Pas-de-Calais, of which it is a sub-prefecture. Although Calais is by far the largest city in Pas-de-Calais, the department's capital is its third-largest city of Arras....

      France
    France
    The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...

    , 753 x 463 cm, 1/600 scale, 6 tables (1691)
  • Charleroi
    Charleroi
    Charleroi is a city and a municipality of Wallonia, located in the province of Hainaut, Belgium. , the total population of Charleroi was 201,593. The metropolitan area, including the outer commuter zone, covers an area of and had a total population of 522,522 as of 1 January 2008, ranking it as...

      Belgium
    Belgium
    Belgium , officially the Kingdom of Belgium, is a federal state in Western Europe. It is a founding member of the European Union and hosts the EU's headquarters, and those of several other major international organisations such as NATO.Belgium is also a member of, or affiliated to, many...

    , 405 x 340 cm, 1/600 scale, 4 tables (1695)
  • Ath
    Ath
    Ath is a Belgian municipality located in the Walloon province of Hainaut. The Ath municipality includes the old communes of Lanquesaint, Irchonwelz, Ormeignies, Bouvignies, Ostiches, Rebaix, Maffle, Arbre, Houtaing, Ligne, Mainvault, Moulbaix, Villers-Notre-Dame, Villers-Saint-Amand, Ghislenghien...

      Belgium
    Belgium
    Belgium , officially the Kingdom of Belgium, is a federal state in Western Europe. It is a founding member of the European Union and hosts the EU's headquarters, and those of several other major international organisations such as NATO.Belgium is also a member of, or affiliated to, many...

    , 480 x 378 cm, 1/600 scale, 5 tables (1697)
  • Ypres
    Ypres
    Ypres is a Belgian municipality located in the Flemish province of West Flanders. The municipality comprises the city of Ypres and the villages of Boezinge, Brielen, Dikkebus, Elverdinge, Hollebeke, Sint-Jan, Vlamertinge, Voormezele, Zillebeke, and Zuidschote...

      Belgium
    Belgium
    Belgium , officially the Kingdom of Belgium, is a federal state in Western Europe. It is a founding member of the European Union and hosts the EU's headquarters, and those of several other major international organisations such as NATO.Belgium is also a member of, or affiliated to, many...

    , by engineer Tessier de Derville, 944 x 548 cm, 1/600 scale, 12 tables (1698-1702)
  • Bergues
    Bergues
    Bergues is a commune in the Nord department in northern France.It is situated to the south of Dunkirk and from the Belgian border. Locally it is referred to as "the other Bruges in Flanders"...

      France
    France
    The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...

    , 441 x 376 cm, 1/600 scale, 6 tables (1699)
  • Tournai
    Tournai
    Tournai is a Walloon city and municipality of Belgium located 85 kilometres southwest of Brussels, on the river Scheldt, in the province of Hainaut....

      Belgium
    Belgium
    Belgium , officially the Kingdom of Belgium, is a federal state in Western Europe. It is a founding member of the European Union and hosts the EU's headquarters, and those of several other major international organisations such as NATO.Belgium is also a member of, or affiliated to, many...

    , by engineer Montaigu
    Montaigu
    -In France:*Montaigu, in the Aisne département*Montaigu, in the Jura département*Montaigu, in the Vendée département*Montaigu-de-Quercy, in the Tarn-et-Garonne département*Montaigu-la-Brisette, in the Manche département...

    , 654 x 580 cm, 1/600 scale, 11 tables (1701)
  • Menin
    Menin
    Menin may refer to:*Menin , office in Ancien Régime France*Umberto Menin, Italian artist*The French name for the Belgian town of Menen *Menin, a tumor suppressor associated with multiple endocrine neoplasia type 1....

      Belgium
    Belgium
    Belgium , officially the Kingdom of Belgium, is a federal state in Western Europe. It is a founding member of the European Union and hosts the EU's headquarters, and those of several other major international organisations such as NATO.Belgium is also a member of, or affiliated to, many...

    , 542 x 372 cm, 1/600 scale, 6 tables (1702)
  • Bouchain
    Bouchain
    Bouchain is a commune in the Nord department in northern France.It lies halfway between Cambrai and Valenciennes. Bouchain is a former part of the County of Hainaut.-Heraldry:-References:* Halesworth and Eitorf are twinned with Bouchain....

      France
    France
    The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...

    , by engineer Ladevèze, 418 x 295 cm, 1/600 scale, 5 tables (1715)
  • Lille
    Lille
    Lille is a city in northern France . It is the principal city of the Lille Métropole, the fourth-largest metropolitan area in the country behind those of Paris, Lyon and Marseille. Lille is situated on the Deûle River, near France's border with Belgium...

      France
    France
    The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...

    , by engineer Nicolas de Nézot, 440 x 400 cm, 1/600 scale, 7 tables, paper, silk and wood (1740-1743)
  • Aire-sur-la-Lys
    Aire-sur-la-Lys
    Aire-sur-la-Lys is a commune in the Pas-de-Calais department in northern France.-Geography:The commune is located 10 miles southeast of Saint-Omer, at the junction of the N43 with several departmental roads, by the banks of the Lys and the Laquette rivers.-History:Aire-sur-la-Lys is mentioned for...

      France
    France
    The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...

    , by engineer Nicolas de Nézot, 590 x 467 cm, 1/600 scale, 15 tables, paper, silk and wood (1743)
  • Audenarde  Belgium
    Belgium
    Belgium , officially the Kingdom of Belgium, is a federal state in Western Europe. It is a founding member of the European Union and hosts the EU's headquarters, and those of several other major international organisations such as NATO.Belgium is also a member of, or affiliated to, many...

    , by engineer Nicolas de Nézot, 548 x 416 cm, 1/600 scale, 11 tables, paper, silk and wood (1747)
  • Namur
    Namur (city)
    Namur is a city and municipality in Wallonia, in southern Belgium. It is both the capital of the province of Namur and of Wallonia....

      Belgium
    Belgium
    Belgium , officially the Kingdom of Belgium, is a federal state in Western Europe. It is a founding member of the European Union and hosts the EU's headquarters, and those of several other major international organisations such as NATO.Belgium is also a member of, or affiliated to, many...

    , by engineer Larcher d'Aubencourt, 776 x 650 cm, 1/600 scale, 22 tables (1747-1750)
  • Maastricht
    Maastricht
    Maastricht is situated on both sides of the Meuse river in the south-eastern part of the Netherlands, on the Belgian border and near the German border...

      Netherlands
    Netherlands
    The Netherlands is a constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, located mainly in North-West Europe and with several islands in the Caribbean. Mainland Netherlands borders the North Sea to the north and west, Belgium to the south, and Germany to the east, and shares maritime borders...

    , by engineer Larcher d'Aubencourt, 689 x 580 cm, 1/600 scale, 13 tables (1752)
  • Gravelines
    Gravelines
    Gravelines is a commune in the Nord department in northern France.It lies at the mouth of the river Aa 15 miles southwest of Dunkirk. There is a market in the town square on Saturdays. The "Arsenal" approached from the town square is home to an extensive and carefully displayed art collection....

      France
    France
    The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...

    , by engineer Lusca
    Lusca
    The lusca is a name given to a sea monster reported from the Caribbean. It has been suggested by cryptozoologists that the lusca is a gigantic octopus, far larger than the known giant octopuses of the genus Enteroctopus.-Sightings:...

    , 460 x 373 cm, 1/600 scale, 7 tables, paper, silk and wood (1756)
  • Avesnes
    Avesnes-sur-Helpe
    Avesnes-sur-Helpe is a commune in the Nord department in northern France. It is a sub-prefecture of the department Nord-Pas Calais. Avesnes-sur-Helpe is known as "the little Switzerland of the north." This region is filled with spacious country parks areas and leisure facilities, including Val...

      France
    France
    The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...

    , 753 x 525 cm, 1/600 scale, 18 tables (1824-1826)

Curator, director of the Palais des Beaux-Arts

  • Alain Tapié (present)
  • Arnaud Brejon de Lavergnée
  • Albert Châtelet

Expositions temporaires

  • Goya: Les Caprices (1799), 24 April - 28 July 2008
  • Philippe de Champaigne
    Philippe de Champaigne
    Philippe de Champaigne was a Flemish-born French Baroque era painter, a major exponent of the French school.-Early life:Born in Brussels of a poor family, Champaigne was a pupil of the landscape painter Jacques Fouquières...

    , 27 April - 15 August 2007 (his first retrospective)
  • Rubens
    Rubens
    Rubens is often used to refer to Peter Paul Rubens , the Flemish artist.Rubens may also refer to:- People :Family name* Paul Rubens Rubens is often used to refer to Peter Paul Rubens (1577-1640), the Flemish artist.Rubens may also refer to:- People :Family name* Paul Rubens (composer) Rubens is...

    , 6 March-14 June 2004 (as part of Lille 2004)
  • Carolus-Duran
    Carolus-Duran
    Charles Auguste Émile Durand, known as Carolus-Duran , was a French painter and art instructor. He is noted for his stylish depictions of members of high society in Third Republic France.-Biography:...

    , 9 March - 9 June 2003
  • Berthe Morisot
    Berthe Morisot
    Berthe Morisot was a painter and a member of the circle of painters in Paris who became known as the Impressionists. She was described by Gustave Geffroy in 1894 as one of "les trois grandes dames" of Impressionism alongside Marie Bracquemond and Mary Cassatt.In 1864, she exhibited for the first...

    , 10 March - 9 June 2002 (first European retrospective since 1961)
  • Francisco de Goya, 15 December 1998-14 March 1999

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