MUSÉE DES BEAUX ARTS, LYON
- Eleni Kyriacou
- Apr 6
- 1 min read
The Musée des Beaux Arts was once a convent called Palais Saint‑Pierre. It was converted into a museum in 1801. It sits on the most renowned square in Lyon: the Place des Terreaux, which boasts the Bartholdi fountain, a fountain sculpture installed in 1892 by the infamous sculptor who created Liberty Enlightening the World (the Statue of Liberty): Bartholdi.
View of the Bartholdi fountain from the courtyard garden of the Musée des Beaux Arts
The museum houses a varied collection that goes beyond French art and ranges from Greek antiquity to contemporary art. Some of the paintings that stood out to me were Thomas Couture’s Femme nue, 1855; Henri Fantin-Latour’s La Lecture, 1877; El Greco’s The Disrobing of Christ, 1579; Willem Claesz Heda’s Still Life, 1642 and Jan Frans van Dael’s Vase of Flowers with a Broken Tuberose, 1807.
I also liked the contemporary sculpture installations by Claude Champy and Bernard Dejonghe.
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