Museum of Fine Arts, Rouen, France
Channel: Tatyana Kramarevskaya
Date: 2019-10-20

Founded in 1801 by Napoleon I, its current building was built between 1880 and 1888 and underwent complete renovation in 1994. It houses painting, sculpture, drawing and decorative art collections.The painting collection is of particular interest : every European school is represented, from the 15th to the 21st century. Among the most important painters whose work is featured in the museum one can find :

for 16th-century painting painters including Perugino, Gerard David, François Clouet, Veronese, Jacopo Bassano and Annibale Carracci.
for the 17th century works by Rubens, Van Dyck, Caravaggio, Guercino, Luca Giordano, Diego Velázquez, Jusepe de Ribera, Philippe de Champaigne, Simon Vouet, Pierre Mignard, Laurent de La Hyre, Nicolas Poussin, Eustache Le Sueur and John Michael Wright.
for the 18th century Hyacinthe Rigaud, Fragonard, François Boucher, Francesco Guardi, Pietro Longhi, Hubert Robert and Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun.
19th and 20th-century art is particularly well represented with many masterpieces and a significant impressionist collection. Paintings by David, Ingres, Géricault, Delacroix, Édouard Joseph Dantan, Corot, Gustave Moreau, Caillebotte, Sisley, Renoir, Pissarro, Carrière, Degas, and Monet are featured for this period. Twentieth-century painting includes paintings by Raoul Dufy, André Derain, Édouard Vuillard, Amedeo Modigliani, Jacques Villon, Marcel Duchamp, Jean Dubuffet, and Robert Antoine Pinchon.