2016-06-12 Rouen, Musee Des Beaux Arts

The Museum of Fine Arts of Rouen is one of the leading museums of region of France. It lies in the heart of the city, facing the square Verdrel in a building whose complete renovation was completed in 1994. revolutionary origin, the Museum of Fine Arts of Rouen was created in 1801. Modest initially its collections have greatly enriched during the nineteenth century. Quoted in 1878 as the most complete after Paris, it still has a collection of rich and exceptional magnitude. The firm graphic arts and its eight thousand works, including enjoys an international reputation. Online resources - teaching files and young audiences booklet - help prepare an exciting tour. Its permanent collections are on sixty salles the seventeenth and nineteenth centuries being particularly well represented.
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Lots of information about their life and fellowship.

As part of the Normandy Impressionist Festival on the theme of the portrait:

MANET, RENOIR, MONET, MORISOT... SCÈNES DE LA VIE IMPRESSIONNISTE

It was in Rouen in 1872 that Claude Monet exhibited for the first time in a museum. Next to a landscape, it reveals an intimate picture, a portrait of his wife Camille titled Meditation. After organizing two reference exhibits the Impressionist Landscape, A City for Impressionism (2010) and Dazzling reflections (2013), the Museum of Fine Arts in Rouen offers, with scenes of Impressionist life, consider this pouring more secret, and discover how the Impressionists invested portraiture to translate the movements of modernity and assert itself on the art scene.

Through eleven themes articulated chronologically, hundreds of notable paintings, but also photographs, drawings, sculptures and correspondence, the exhibition offers a dive in the heart of personal universes often overshadowed by an immense work.