Palais des Beaux-Arts de Lille


The Palais des Beaux-Arts de Lille is a municipal museum dedicated to fine arts, modern art, and antiquities located in Lille. It is one of the [list of list of largest art museums in the world|largest art museums in the world|largest] art museums in France.
It was one of the first museums built in France, established under the instructions of Napoleon I at the beginning of the 19th century as part of the popularisation of art. Jean-Antoine Chaptal's decree of 1801 selected fifteen French cities to receive the works seized from churches and from the European territories occupied by the armies of Revolutionary France. The painters Louis Joseph Watteau and François-Louis-Joseph 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 before being transferred to the city's town hall. In 1866, the "musée Wicar", formed from the collection of Jean-Baptiste Wicar, was merged into the Palais des Beaux-Arts. Construction of the Palais's current Baroque-revival-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 and Fernand Etienne-Charles Delmas from Paris. During the early 20th century, Victor Mollet served as its official architect. 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 and held 72430 pieces as of 2015, one of the largest provincial collections of fine art. The collection includes works by Raphael, Donatello, Van Dyck, Tissot, Jordaens, Goya, El Greco, David, Corot, Courbet, Toulouse-Lautrec, Delacroix, Rubens, Rodin, Claudel and Jean Siméon Chardin.
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Collections

Antiquities, Middle Ages and Renaissance

Ascension of the Elect, Dieric Bouts, oil on wood Fall of the Damned, Dieric Bouts, oil on wood Portrait of man, skull in a niche, Barthel Bruyn, oil on woodThree donors with Saint John the Baptist, Barthel Bruyn the Younger, oil on woodThe Virgin and the Sleeping Jesus, Joos van Cleve, oil on wood The Virgin nursing the Infant Jesus, Joos van Cleve, oil on wood Christ blessing the Virgin, Jacob Cornelisz van Amsterdam, oil on wood The Virgin, the Infant Jesus and saint Cecilia, Domenico PanettiTrinity, triptych of Marchiennes, Jean Bellegambe, oil on wood Triptych of the mystic bath, Jehan Bellegambe, oil on wood Feast of Herod, Donatello, marble Vanity, Jan Sanders van Hemessen, oil on wood Virgin and Child surrounded by angels, Master of the Embroidered Foliage, triptych, oil on wood Portraits of Louis de Quarre and Barbe de Cruysinck as donors; saint Barbara and saint Louis on foot under arcades, Master of the Embroidered Foliage, oil on wood The Virgin in glory amidst the apostles, Master of the Lyversberg Passion, oil on wood Adoration of the Shepherds, Master of the Lille Adoration, oil on wood Preaching of saint John the Baptist, Master of the Lille Preaching, oil on wood Vierge au lait, Maître des Madones mosanes, marble Adoration of the Magi, Maître MS, oil on wood Saint Dorothea and Saint Mary Magdalen, Master of saint-Séverin, two panels, oil on wood Noli me tangere, Lambert Sustris The Resurrection and La Vierge du rosaire, anonymous, South German, oil on wood Adoration of the Magi, anonymous, triptych, oil on wood Saint Henri and saint Cunégonde, saint Jerome and a bishop saint, predella of the retable of saint George, anonymous, Tyrol, oil on wood Saint John the Baptist and saint Catherine, anonymous, German, oil on wood Saint Barbara and two saints, anonymous, German, oil on wood Sketch for Paradise, Veronese, oil on wood

17th-century paintings

Rest of the Holy Family, Pieter van Avont, oil on woodMartyrdom of saint Maurice and his companions, Jan Boeckorst known as Lange Jan, oil on canvas Allegory of the Vanities of the World, Pieter Boel, oil on canvas Coronation the Virgin, Thomas Willeboirts Bosschaert, oil on canvasEcstasy of saint Rosalie of Palermo, Theodor Boeyermans, oil on canvasThe Nativity, Philippe de Champaigne, oil on canvasAntique landscape, Philippe de Champaigne, oil on canvasSaint Nicolas saving the prisoners, Jan Cossiers, oil on canvas The Miraculous Fish or The apostles reporting to Christ the fruit of their enterprise, Gaspard de Crayer, oil on woodMartyrdom of the crowned martyrs : Claudius, Nicolastratus, Symphorianus, Castor and Simplicius, Gaspard de Crayer, oil on woodMiracle of Saint Anthony of Padua at Toulouse, Anthony van Dyck, oil on wood Christ on the cross, Anthony van Dyck, oil on canvasPortrait of Marie de Médicis, reine de France, Anthony van DyckChrist climbing to Calvary and being recognised by saint Veronica, Frans II Francken, oil on wood Presentation of the Holy Tunic to Charles V, Frans II Francken, oil on wood Ball on a palace terrace or ball at the court of Don John of Austria, Hieronymus Janssens known as Le danseur, oil on canvas Christ and the Pharisees, Jacob Jordaens, oil on canvas The Abduction of Europa, Jacob Jordaens, oil on canvas Portrait of a man, Jacob Jordaens, oil on woodSusanna and the Elders, Jacob Jordaens, oil on canvasThe distress of the prodigal son, Jacob JordaensA piqueur and his dogs, Jacob Jordaens, Saint Mary Magdalene at prayer, Eustache Le Sueur, oil on canvasBurial, Pieter Lastman, oil on wood Moses dividing the waters, Johann Liss, oil on canvasSt Peter causing a cloud to protect the faithful from the sun, Jeremias Mittendorff, oil on wood Martyrdom of Saint Peter of Verona, Jeremias Mittendorff, oil on canvas Saint Peter unmasking a false Madonna that had appeared in a heretics' temple, Jeremias Mittendorff, oil on wood Soldiers casting lots for the tunic of Christ, Nicolas RégnierSt Jerome, José de Ribera, oil on canvas Descent from the Cross, Rubens, oil on canvas Martyrdom of St Catherine, Rubens, oil on canvas Ecstasy of Mary Magdalen, Rubens, oil on canvas Royal Generosity, Jan van den Hoecke, oil on canvas - Workshop of RubensRoyal Providence, Jan van den Hoecke, oil on canvas - Workshop of RubensSaint François receiving the Christ Child from the Virgin's hands, Rubens, oil on canvas Birth of the Virgin, Jacques StellaRenaud and Armide, Alessandro Tiarini, oil on canvasApotheosis of St Francis of Paul, Theodoor van Thulden, oil on woodMartyrdom of St Philippe, oil on wood Jesus's arrest in the Garden of Olives, Simon de Vos, oil on copper Jesus tried before Caiaphas, Simon de Vos, oil on copper Saint Zita, Arnould de Vuez, oil on canvas Saint Cecilia accompanied by three angel musicians, Arnould de VuezMourning Virgin, Arnould de Vuez, oil on canvasSt Anthony of Assisi receiving the stigmata, Arnould de Vuez, oil on canvasInterior of the Nieuwe Kerk at Delft, Emanuel de WitteThe Denarius of Caesar, Gerbrand van den Eeckhout

18th- and 19th-century paintings

Vanity, Alfred Agache, oil on canvas Portrait of Madame d’Aucourt de Saint-Just, Louis-Léopold Boilly, oil on canvas Portrait of Monsieur d’Aucourt de Saint-Just, Boilly, oil on canvas Portrait, said to be of Robespierre, Boilly, oil on canvasPortrait of the sculptor Jean-Antoine Houdon, Boilly, oil study on paperPortrait of Julien Boilly enfant, Boilly, oil on canvasMy foot of beef, Boilly, oil on canvasTriumph of Marat, Boilly, paper on canvas23 studies for "the Studio of Isabey", Boilly, paper on canvasTobias fighting his father, Bon Boullongne, oil on canvas Lady in black, Carolus-Duran, oil on cartoon Sleeping man, Carolus-Duran, oil on canvas The Kiss, Carolus-Duran, oil on canvas Lady with a dog, Carolus-Duran, The silver goblet, Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin, oil on canvas Elevation of the Cross, Alphonse Colas, Idyll or Cache-Cache, Jean-Baptiste CorotView of Honfleur, Gustave CourbetAn Après-dîner at Ornans, Gustave Courbet, oil on canvas Belisarius begging alms, Jacques-Louis David, oil on canvas Apelles painting Campaspe in Alexander's presence, Jacques-Louis David, oil on wood Medea, Eugène Delacroix, oil on canvas Hêtraie in the forest of Fontainebleau, Constant DutilleuxThe Birth of Venus, Amaury Duval, oil on canvas Persuasion, Cyprian GodebskiThe Young People or The Letter, Francisco de GoyaThe Old People or Time, Francisco de Goya, oil on canvas Psyche crowning Love, Jean-Baptiste Greuze, oil on canvasPortrait of Berthe Morisot with a Fan, Édouard ManetPortrait of the artist, Odilon Redon, oil on canvas The Supper at Emmaus, Jean Restout, oil on canvas Landscape at Grandcamp, Georges Seurat, oil on wood

20th-century paintings

Olga au col de fourrure, Pablo PicassoRythme Coloré, Sonia DelaunayThe barn, Constant PermekePortrait of a woman, Rik WoutersPoelle flamand, Édouard PignonPortrait, Ladislas KijnoButterfly on a wheel, Fernand LégerEcluse, Vieira da SilvaComposition on the word cheval, Auguste HerbinTriptych, Marcel Lempereur-HautComposition, Serge Poliakoff

Sculptures

Penelope, Émile-Antoine Bourdelle, bronze statue Charles Frédéric Kuhlmann, Albert-Ernest Carrier-Belleuse, marble bust The Pisan, Carolus-Duran, bronzeLouise Claudel, Camille Claudel, terracotta bustGiganti or Head of a brigand, Camille Claudel, bronze headThe Kisser, Gustave Crauk, plasterCincinnatus, Denis Foyatier, plaster statueKnight errant, Emmanuel Frémiet, plaster equestrian statue Narcissus, Ernest-Eugène Hiolle, plaster statue The Fever of Caumartin, Jean-Antoine Houdon, bronze-painted plaster bust Camulogene, Eugène-Louis Lequesne, plaster statue Satyr and bacchante, James Pradier, painted plaster Apollo and the muses, Emile Morlaix, original plasterDying Hero, René Leleu, bronzeLa Séve, Gaston Watkin, stoneAthlete, Gerard Choain, bronzeJoan of Arc and other pieces, Alphonse-Amédée Cordonnier

Prints and drawings

Preparatory drawing for the "Alba Madonna". Seated man wearing a shirt, bare arms., Raphael

Collection of "plans-reliefs"

Calais France, 753 × 463 cm, 1/600 scale, 6 tables Charleroi Belgium, 405 × 340 cm, 1/600 scale, 4 tables Ath Belgium, 480 × 378 cm, 1/600 scale, 5 tables Ypres Belgium, by engineer Tessier de Derville, 944 × 548 cm, 1/600 scale, 12 tables Bergues France, 441 × 376 cm, 1/600 scale, 6 tables Tournai Belgium, by engineer Montaigu, 654 × 580 cm, 1/600 scale, 11 tables Menin Belgium, 542 × 372 cm, 1/600 scale, 6 tables Bouchain France, by engineer Ladevèze, 418 × 295 cm, 1/600 scale, 5 tables Lille France, by engineer Nicolas de Nézot, 440 × 400 cm, 1/600 scale, 7 tables, paper, silk and wood Aire-sur-la-Lys France, by engineer Nicolas de Nézot, 590 × 467 cm, 1/600 scale, 15 tables, paper, silk and wood Audenarde Belgium, by engineer Nicolas de Nézot, 548 × 416 cm, 1/600 scale, 11 tables, paper, silk and wood Namur Belgium, by engineer Larcher d'Aubencourt, 776 × 650 cm, 1/600 scale, 22 tables Maastricht Netherlands, by engineer Larcher d'Aubencourt, 689 × 580 cm, 1/600 scale, 13 tables Gravelines France, by engineer Lusca, 460 × 373 cm, 1/600 scale, 7 tables, paper, silk and wood Avesnes France, 753 × 525 cm, 1/600 scale, 18 tables

Curator, director of the Palais des Beaux-Arts

  • Bruno Girveau
  • Alain Tapié
  • Arnaud Brejon de Lavergnée
  • Albert Châtelet

Goya: Les Caprices , 24 April - 28 July 2008