Museum of Grenoble
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The Museum of Grenoble is a city museum of Fine Arts and antiques in the city of Grenoble
in France.
Located on the left bank of the Isère, place Lavalette, it is known both for its collections of ancient art for its collections of modern and contemporary art..
That day, an order of the local administration detailing the creation of a museum in Grenoble, in which article 10 stipulates that the citizen Louis-Joseph Jay was appointed curator of this museum.
In May, the Interior Minister canceled the creation of the museum but a provisional authorization is obtained in December, which became final April 3, 1800. Beginning in 1799, while engaged in collecting works of art of the Isère, Jay requested public subscription to purchase paintings and drawings.
Housed in four halls of the first floor of the former bishopric from its opening December 31, 1800, the museum has 298 works of art including 177 paintings, 80 drawings and 45 engravings or sculptures placed in the garden.
Each room has a name, the first room of Apollo, is devoted to French painters, the second of Castor and Pollux, is devoted to Italian and French schools, the third exhibition of Gladiator, has copies of the life of San Bruno
by Eustache Lesueur, and the last room of the Venus de Medici, this Flemish school.
A few months after its opening, the Concordat of 1801
by Napoleon Bonaparte forced the evacuation of the premises of the museum to restore their original destination.
So that he landscape July 14, 1802 in the Central School, the current Lycée Stendhal
.
On March 12, 1807, a decree transformed the museum into county, municipal museum.
In 1815, despite a slight dispersion of works favored by the restoration, (57 tables returned to owners, 11 lost and an unknown number being deposited in the churches) the collections continue to increase. The acquisitions, donations and legacies continue throughout the 19th century as to make necessary the construction of a new building despite the building expansion in 1844.
A new building designed by architect Charles-Auguste Questel
is inaugurated in 1872 on the current site of Verdun.
The museum-library, so called because it also houses the municipal library of Grenoble, is one of the great examples of museum architecture in France and Europe.
Towards the end of the 19th century, a great patron, General Leon de Beylié donated four famous paintings by Francisco Zurbarán
to the museum's collection, continuing a long tradition of donations and bequests.
His influence is seen in the nature collections.
From 1895 until his accidental death on July 15, 1910, the museum brought 50 tables, 13 drawings, 16 sculptures, 13 pieces of archeology and hundreds of objects from the Far East.
In 1920, the Museum of Grenoble is considered the first museum of contemporary art in France since the Paris opened in 1947. It is even one of the first in the world with the Museum Folkwang
d Essen
and the Łódź in Poland, since the Museum of Modern Art
in New York opens in 1929.
In 1982, President François Mitterrand
announces a new building. The following year, Alain Carignon the new mayor and Jack Lang
, Minister of Culture, agreed on the idea of the construction site, which used to be a downtown park. Construction began in 1990 after the appointment of architects in 1987.
On January 30, 1994, the new building housing the collections is inaugurated by Prime Minister Édouard Balladur
. Located in the heart of the city, bordering the Isère, it triples the exhibition space of the old museum and its total cost is 203 millions francs. It will complete a sculpture garden in the Albert Michallon park, a wooded area of 16 000 m² around a wall of the city from the late 19th century.
Two Conservatives made history of the museum: Louis-Joseph Jay and Andry-Farcy. The former works and ensures the establishment of the museum from 1798 to 1815 before leaving the estate to Benjamin Rolland. Painters Alexandre Debelle and Jules Bernard ensure the succession as preservatives.
Then in the 20th century, Xavier Borgey and especially Andry-Farcy, curator from 1919 to 1949, which will focus decisively for the collection of modern art. Andry Farcy's successors were Jean Leymarie
, Gabrielle Kueny, Maurice Besset, Marie-Claude Beaud, Pierre Gaudibert, Helene Vincent provides a temporary for 2 years Serge Lemoine and since 2002, Guy Tosatto.
Thus is built the Tower of the island in 1401, serving as a defense system that provided a means of relative autonomy of the consuls of the city at their first "home City ". In 1591, the future Duke of Lesdiguieres
, just take the city through the wars of religion, and built a new fortified wall, turning the place into a small fortress also called Arsenal to protect itself from any rebellion of the inhabitants. Then, this area became the first barracks in the history of the city.
In the 19th century, the general Haxo
enlarged the precincts of the city from 1832 to 1836 by building a new fortification wall just lean against the citadel. Historically instead of military occupation, the area is so busy during the 19th century by several barracks which Vinoy barracks at the site of the museum and the barracks Bizanet opposite.
Around 1888, a change is made in the enclosure Haxo. At the urging of the mayor, Edouard Rey, and population The genius creates a new door, the door Saulaie to serve the new district of Île Verte
. This requires creating the military technically correct the path of the enclosure Haxo building a new line of enclosure bracket joining the board of Isère at the site of a former Half Moon
fortification. This new wall of 150 linear meters has been preserved since that time between now and the sculpture garden and football field. In 1967 the buildings of the barracks Vinoy
were demolished, leaving room for a large parking.
On the site, the design constraints are strong. Imperatives are met in the immediate vicinity of the site. North-west part of pregnant Lesdiguieres dating from 1591 are recorded in historical monuments. Nearby, the Tour de l'Isle dating from 1401, also is registered to renovate. To the east, the amended portion of the enclosure built around 1888 should be retained, forcing the integration of part of it inside the building.
Finally to the east, a football stadium is to be stored within the path of the enclosure for this area with high urban density.
Upstairs, the offices of conservation, those of the Friends of the museum, those of the association Museum in music that organizes music concerts in an auditorium of 275 seats in partnership with the Musée du Louvre and finally the library André Chastel
provided a fund specializing in art history from articles onsite consultation.
Less known to the general public, as a parenthesis in the path, a collection of 115 statues and artefacts African are in the alley between the 19th-20th century. The visitor has the opportunity to equip themselves with fee, an audio guide that allows him to find his rhythm collections.
The texts are short and played live and recorded by actors. The permanent collections (1 500 works in 57 rooms of m²) together:
Ancient Egyptian, Greek and Roman
Two rooms located in the lobby, the -1 is devoted to Egyptian antiquities, with particularly beautiful sarcophagi.
One room is devoted to Roman antiquities, and Greek antiquities. The city of Grenoble is linked to the story of Champollion and that of Egyptology.
From the 18th century in fact, ancient Egyptian pieces from excavations include the ancient practice of the municipal library of Grenoble, which Jean-François Champollion
is the assistant librarian.
It is natural that the fund is reflected in the museum where it has ceased to be enriched by many gifts in the 19th and early 20th centuries.
Most important have been made by the French Society of archaeological excavations in 1907 and 1913 following the excavation of Antinoe of Touna-el-Gebel and Kom el Ahmar, then in 1916 by the family of the Count Saint-Ferriol. In April 2010, the prophetess of Antinoe, a sixth-century mummy discovered in 1907 in a necropolis
Coptic
of Antinoe in Middle Egypt, returns to the Museum of Grenoble, after more than fifty years of absence.
The collection of ancient Egyptian regarded as the fifth of France, after that of the Louvre
, the Museum of Archeology Mediterranean in Marseille, Lyon
and Dijon
includes furniture and funerary objects of everyday life.
The entire tomb is impressive, especially the fragmentary, of Amenhotep son of Hapu, vizier of Amenhotep III
.
13th to 16th century
The collection includes the origins of Western painting, then the collection soon reached the period of the Renaissance art.
17th century
This section is devoted to the prestigious French paintings, Flemish hollandaises Spanish and Italian. It may in particular include:
18th century
The works of this century presents majestic paintings of the French school, as martyrdom of St Andrew painted in 1749 by Jean Restout
for the Collégiale Saint-André in Grenoble.
The Doge of Venice worn by gondoliers by Francesco Guardi
. Animals, flowers and fruitpainted in 1717 by François Desportes
Snowy Landscape with rocks and Travelers painted around 1750 by Francesco Foschi
19th century
19th is illustrated by a remarkable set from neoclassicism
until Nabis
, with works by Ingres
Delacroix
Théodore Géricault
, Camille Corot Gustave Courbet
Gustave Doré
, Felix Vallotton
(Naked woman sitting in an armchair,1897), Frederic Bazille
, Alfred Sisley
Camille Pissarro
Auguste Renoir, Paul Gauguin
(The River and White Portrait Madeleine Bernard) Theo Van Rysselberghe
and Henri Fantin-Latour
whose wife will be an important legacy to the museum in 1921.
Essentially art museum, the Museum of Grenoble retains sculptures of the 19th century mostly, including that of Phryne from James Pradier
.
In room 17, is the plaster with a height of 2 meters Jean-François Champollion
by the sculptor Bartholdi.
This plaster has served as a model for the marble sculpture of the Collège de France
in Paris.
Regional art of 19th century
Dauphinoise school of the 19th century reached a level that justifies the prominence it held in the museum. The founder of this school, Jean Achard
gives the first majestic landscapes that will excite the painters following. Laurent Guetal, Charles Bertier Ernest Hebert
, the Abbe Cales.
20th century
The section of the 20th century is particularly rich because the museum is considered the oldest museum of contemporary art in France. The victories of modern art until the formal developments more recent.
Part of the collection from the important legacy Agutte
- Sembat.
All trends are present with paint charts Henri Matisse
, Pablo Picasso
, Georges Braque
, and others.
Matisse donated his Inside eggplant, Pablo Picasso from his Woman Reading in 1921 and Claude Monet's corner of the pond at Giverny in 1923.
Drawings
Located in the Tour de l'Isle, converted into graphic arts firm, the old collection account drawings mainly from donations and bequests of Léonce Mesnard to ((s | XIX | e)).
He will devote part of his life to his writings and collections.
At his death in May 1890, the mayor of Grenoble, Auguste Gaché, will praise his generosity as parts are bequeathed to the museum .
The Italian drawings predominate, including the Venetians, the Florentines of the Renaissance and the Seicento.
The funds of the French 17th century this is through people like Laurent de La Hyre
or Vouet
.
The 18th century includes famous artists such as Watteau
Hubert Robert
or Jacques-Louis David
. School Hollandaise required by its significance with particular Jacob Jordaens
and Rembrandt.
The ((-s | XIX | e)) is characterized by a series of important artists like Delacroix
Fantin-Latour or Jongkind with his watercolors of Dauphine. The collection is second in terms of importance to French museum after that of the Musée National d'Art Moderne
.
As for painting, it owes much to the policy Andry Farcy.
In 1923, the legacy Agutte Sembat-24 is back with the drawings in charcoal sketch of the dance Matisse 1909.
fortification, a garden status.
Overall the park is a square shape and embracing the path of the massive fortification wall of the end of ((s-| XIX | e)) that ends inside the museum.
It is in this park that is the oldest tree in the city, Lebanon Cedar
, planted in 1847
It offers the unique opportunity in the heart of town to exhibit sculptures outdoors. The park surface Michallon does not allow to extend indefinitely the presentation of sculptures in 1988, the choice of management is focused on the period of the 20th century, consistent with the extensive collection of contemporary art museum.
Before the museum, partly framed by the walls of the end of ((s | XVI | e)) built by the Duke of Lesdiguieres
, is added to the park, the esplanade François Mitterrand, which are implanted in steel works and a bronze statue.
From the forecourt of the museum, the visit starts with the Esplanade François Mitterrand: Marcel Gimond
- Girl standing, bronze 1934 (front wall of the 16th century)
and continues round the museum along the Isère to enter the park Albert Michallon.
Each year, two major exhibitions are organized to help make the museum an important center of French artistic life. On leaving these rooms, a pool of water encourages visitors to take a break.
Grenoble
Grenoble is a city in southeastern France, at the foot of the French Alps where the river Drac joins the Isère. Located in the Rhône-Alpes region, Grenoble is the capital of the department of Isère...
in France.
Located on the left bank of the Isère, place Lavalette, it is known both for its collections of ancient art for its collections of modern and contemporary art..
History
The Museum of Grenoble was founded February 16, 1798 by Louis-Joseph Jay, well before other French provincial museums.That day, an order of the local administration detailing the creation of a museum in Grenoble, in which article 10 stipulates that the citizen Louis-Joseph Jay was appointed curator of this museum.
In May, the Interior Minister canceled the creation of the museum but a provisional authorization is obtained in December, which became final April 3, 1800. Beginning in 1799, while engaged in collecting works of art of the Isère, Jay requested public subscription to purchase paintings and drawings.
Housed in four halls of the first floor of the former bishopric from its opening December 31, 1800, the museum has 298 works of art including 177 paintings, 80 drawings and 45 engravings or sculptures placed in the garden.
Each room has a name, the first room of Apollo, is devoted to French painters, the second of Castor and Pollux, is devoted to Italian and French schools, the third exhibition of Gladiator, has copies of the life of San Bruno
Bruno of Cologne
Saint Bruno of Cologne , the founder of the Carthusian Order, personally founded the order's first two communities...
by Eustache Lesueur, and the last room of the Venus de Medici, this Flemish school.
A few months after its opening, the Concordat of 1801
Concordat of 1801
The Concordat of 1801 was an agreement between Napoleon and Pope Pius VII, signed on 15 July 1801. It solidified the Roman Catholic Church as the majority church of France and brought back most of its civil status....
by Napoleon Bonaparte forced the evacuation of the premises of the museum to restore their original destination.
So that he landscape July 14, 1802 in the Central School, the current Lycée Stendhal
Lycée Stendhal
The lycée Stendhal, formerly Lycée International Stendhal, is a secondary and higher education establishment in Grenoble. It is the oldest lycée in Grenoble, and its pupils have included Stendhal and Champollion...
.
On March 12, 1807, a decree transformed the museum into county, municipal museum.
In 1815, despite a slight dispersion of works favored by the restoration, (57 tables returned to owners, 11 lost and an unknown number being deposited in the churches) the collections continue to increase. The acquisitions, donations and legacies continue throughout the 19th century as to make necessary the construction of a new building despite the building expansion in 1844.
A new building designed by architect Charles-Auguste Questel
Charles-Auguste Questel
Charles-Auguste Questel was a French academic architect and teacher.-Biography:Born in Paris, Questel was a student of Félix Duban at the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts, and took a second-place Prix de Rome in 1844. He became a member of the Académie des Beaux-Arts in 1871.Questel...
is inaugurated in 1872 on the current site of Verdun.
The museum-library, so called because it also houses the municipal library of Grenoble, is one of the great examples of museum architecture in France and Europe.
Towards the end of the 19th century, a great patron, General Leon de Beylié donated four famous paintings by Francisco Zurbarán
Francisco Zurbarán
Francisco de Zurbarán was a Spanish painter. He is known primarily for his religious paintings depicting monks, nuns, and martyrs, and for his still-lifes...
to the museum's collection, continuing a long tradition of donations and bequests.
His influence is seen in the nature collections.
From 1895 until his accidental death on July 15, 1910, the museum brought 50 tables, 13 drawings, 16 sculptures, 13 pieces of archeology and hundreds of objects from the Far East.
In 1920, the Museum of Grenoble is considered the first museum of contemporary art in France since the Paris opened in 1947. It is even one of the first in the world with the Museum Folkwang
Museum Folkwang
Museum Folkwang is a major collection of 19th and 20th century art in Essen, Germany. The museum was established in 1922 by merging the Essener Kunstmuseum, which was founded in 1906, and the private Folkwang Museum of the collector and patron Karl Ernst Osthaus in Hagen, founded in 1901.The term...
d Essen
Essen
- Origin of the name :In German-speaking countries, the name of the city Essen often causes confusion as to its origins, because it is commonly known as the German infinitive of the verb for the act of eating, and/or the German noun for food. Although scholars still dispute the interpretation of...
and the Łódź in Poland, since the Museum of Modern Art
Museum of Modern Art
The Museum of Modern Art is an art museum in Midtown Manhattan in New York City, on 53rd Street, between Fifth and Sixth Avenues. It has been important in developing and collecting modernist art, and is often identified as the most influential museum of modern art in the world...
in New York opens in 1929.
In 1982, President François Mitterrand
François Mitterrand
François Maurice Adrien Marie Mitterrand was the 21st President of the French Republic and ex officio Co-Prince of Andorra, serving from 1981 until 1995. He is the longest-serving President of France and, as leader of the Socialist Party, the only figure from the left so far elected President...
announces a new building. The following year, Alain Carignon the new mayor and Jack Lang
Jack Lang (French politician)
Jack Mathieu Émile Lang is a French politician. A member of the Socialist Party, he served as France's Minister of Culture from 1981 to 1986 and 1988 to 1992, and as Minister of Education from 1992 to 1993 and 2000 to 2002. He was also the Mayor of Blois from 1989 to 2000...
, Minister of Culture, agreed on the idea of the construction site, which used to be a downtown park. Construction began in 1990 after the appointment of architects in 1987.
On January 30, 1994, the new building housing the collections is inaugurated by Prime Minister Édouard Balladur
Édouard Balladur
Édouard Balladur is a French politician who served as Prime Minister of France from 29 March 1993 to 10 May 1995.-Biography:Balladur was born in İzmir, Turkey, to an Armenian Catholic family with five children and long-standing ties to France...
. Located in the heart of the city, bordering the Isère, it triples the exhibition space of the old museum and its total cost is 203 millions francs. It will complete a sculpture garden in the Albert Michallon park, a wooded area of 16 000 m² around a wall of the city from the late 19th century.
Two Conservatives made history of the museum: Louis-Joseph Jay and Andry-Farcy. The former works and ensures the establishment of the museum from 1798 to 1815 before leaving the estate to Benjamin Rolland. Painters Alexandre Debelle and Jules Bernard ensure the succession as preservatives.
Then in the 20th century, Xavier Borgey and especially Andry-Farcy, curator from 1919 to 1949, which will focus decisively for the collection of modern art. Andry Farcy's successors were Jean Leymarie
Jean Leymarie (art historian)
Jean Leymarie was a French art historian.-Life:Born into a peasant family, he pursued his studies in Toulouse then Paris. After the Second World War, he began his museum career...
, Gabrielle Kueny, Maurice Besset, Marie-Claude Beaud, Pierre Gaudibert, Helene Vincent provides a temporary for 2 years Serge Lemoine and since 2002, Guy Tosatto.
History of the location of the new museum
The current location of the museum is occupied since the 13th century by the great monastery of the Brothers Minor, known in France, the Franciscans. Integrated into the city in the 13th century by an extension of the Roman wall, the place is the east end of town and will remain so until the 19th century, while requiring different generations of fortifications over the centuries.Thus is built the Tower of the island in 1401, serving as a defense system that provided a means of relative autonomy of the consuls of the city at their first "home City ". In 1591, the future Duke of Lesdiguieres
François de Bonne, duc de Lesdiguières
François de Bonne, duc de Lesdiguières was soldier of the French Wars of Religion and Constable of France.- Early life :He was born at Saint-Bonnet-en-Champsaur, to a family of notaries with pretensions to nobility...
, just take the city through the wars of religion, and built a new fortified wall, turning the place into a small fortress also called Arsenal to protect itself from any rebellion of the inhabitants. Then, this area became the first barracks in the history of the city.
In the 19th century, the general Haxo
François Nicolas Benoît, Baron Haxo
François Nicolas Benoît, Baron Haxo was a French Army general and military engineer.-Biography:He was born at Lunéville and entered the Engineers in 1793....
enlarged the precincts of the city from 1832 to 1836 by building a new fortification wall just lean against the citadel. Historically instead of military occupation, the area is so busy during the 19th century by several barracks which Vinoy barracks at the site of the museum and the barracks Bizanet opposite.
Around 1888, a change is made in the enclosure Haxo. At the urging of the mayor, Edouard Rey, and population The genius creates a new door, the door Saulaie to serve the new district of Île Verte
Île Verte (Grenoble)
LÎle Verte is a neighborhood in Grenoble, located in a bend in the Isère river. It is relatively independent from downtown. The district is one of the most heavily populated in the town, due primarily to the large apartments...
. This requires creating the military technically correct the path of the enclosure Haxo building a new line of enclosure bracket joining the board of Isère at the site of a former Half Moon
Half Moon
Half Moon is a lunar phase coinciding with neap tides, which are often easier for seafarers than spring tides. This would apply to the first quarter and last quarter moon; in both cases, half of the moon's disk is lit...
fortification. This new wall of 150 linear meters has been preserved since that time between now and the sculpture garden and football field. In 1967 the buildings of the barracks Vinoy
Joseph Vinoy
Joseph Vinoy was a French soldier.-Biography:He originally intended to join the Church, but, after some years at a seminary, he decided upon a military career and joined the French army in 1823. As a sergeant in the 14th line infantry, he took part in the Algerian expedition of 1830...
were demolished, leaving room for a large parking.
Architecture building
The present building of 18,270 sq.m. was designed by architects Olivier Félix-Faure, Félix-Antoine Faure and Philippe Macary of architect firm Grenoble Groupe6, assisted by museographer Lorenzo Piqueras.On the site, the design constraints are strong. Imperatives are met in the immediate vicinity of the site. North-west part of pregnant Lesdiguieres dating from 1591 are recorded in historical monuments. Nearby, the Tour de l'Isle dating from 1401, also is registered to renovate. To the east, the amended portion of the enclosure built around 1888 should be retained, forcing the integration of part of it inside the building.
Finally to the east, a football stadium is to be stored within the path of the enclosure for this area with high urban density.
Upstairs, the offices of conservation, those of the Friends of the museum, those of the association Museum in music that organizes music concerts in an auditorium of 275 seats in partnership with the Musée du Louvre and finally the library André Chastel
André Chastel
André Chastel was a French art historian, author of an important work on the Italian Renaissance....
provided a fund specializing in art history from articles onsite consultation.
Collections
The museum offers a history of western 13th century by 21st century, with each period of the first works plan.Less known to the general public, as a parenthesis in the path, a collection of 115 statues and artefacts African are in the alley between the 19th-20th century. The visitor has the opportunity to equip themselves with fee, an audio guide that allows him to find his rhythm collections.
The texts are short and played live and recorded by actors. The permanent collections (1 500 works in 57 rooms of m²) together:
Ancient Egyptian, Greek and Roman
Two rooms located in the lobby, the -1 is devoted to Egyptian antiquities, with particularly beautiful sarcophagi.
One room is devoted to Roman antiquities, and Greek antiquities. The city of Grenoble is linked to the story of Champollion and that of Egyptology.
From the 18th century in fact, ancient Egyptian pieces from excavations include the ancient practice of the municipal library of Grenoble, which Jean-François Champollion
Jean-François Champollion
Jean-François Champollion was a French classical scholar, philologist and orientalist, decipherer of the Egyptian hieroglyphs....
is the assistant librarian.
It is natural that the fund is reflected in the museum where it has ceased to be enriched by many gifts in the 19th and early 20th centuries.
Most important have been made by the French Society of archaeological excavations in 1907 and 1913 following the excavation of Antinoe of Touna-el-Gebel and Kom el Ahmar, then in 1916 by the family of the Count Saint-Ferriol. In April 2010, the prophetess of Antinoe, a sixth-century mummy discovered in 1907 in a necropolis
Necropolis
A necropolis is a large cemetery or burial ground, usually including structural tombs. The word comes from the Greek νεκρόπολις - nekropolis, literally meaning "city of the dead"...
Coptic
Coptic
Coptic may refer to:*The Copts: were a major ethnic group in Egypt. This term described all the people living in Egypt under Roman rule during the 4th to 6th centuries A.D., and until the Muslims took over....
of Antinoe in Middle Egypt, returns to the Museum of Grenoble, after more than fifty years of absence.
The collection of ancient Egyptian regarded as the fifth of France, after that of the Louvre
Louvre
The Musée du Louvre – in English, the Louvre Museum or simply the Louvre – is one of the world's largest museums, the most visited art museum in the world and a historic monument. A central landmark of Paris, it is located on the Right Bank of the Seine in the 1st arrondissement...
, the Museum of Archeology Mediterranean in Marseille, Lyon
Musée des beaux-arts de Lyon
The Museum of Fine Arts of Lyon is a municipal museum of fine arts in the French city of Lyon. It is housed near place des Terreaux in a former Benedictine convent of the 17th and 18th centuries. It was restored between 1988 and 1998, and despite these important restoration works it remained open...
and Dijon
Musée des Beaux-Arts de Dijon
The Musée des Beaux-Arts de Dijon is a museum of fine arts opened in 1787 in Dijon, France. It is housed in the Palace of the Dukes of Burgundy in the historic center of Dijon.- Artworks :The Musée include a large and varied collection of art:...
includes furniture and funerary objects of everyday life.
The entire tomb is impressive, especially the fragmentary, of Amenhotep son of Hapu, vizier of Amenhotep III
Amenhotep III
Amenhotep III also known as Amenhotep the Magnificent was the ninth pharaoh of the Eighteenth dynasty. According to different authors, he ruled Egypt from June 1386 to 1349 BC or June 1388 BC to December 1351 BC/1350 BC after his father Thutmose IV died...
.
13th to 16th century
The collection includes the origins of Western painting, then the collection soon reached the period of the Renaissance art.
- Santa Lucia assigned to Jacopo TorritiJacopo TorritiJacopo Torriti or Turriti was an Italian painter and mosaic maker who lived in the 13th century.He worked in the decoration in San Giovanni in Laterano and Santa Maria Maggiore in Rome. Those in the Lateran were carried out in conjunction with the Franciscan monk, Jacopo Camerino...
- Triptych The Virgin and Child with St. Gerard, St. Paul, St. Andrew and St. Nicolas (1395) of Taddeo di BartoloTaddeo di BartoloTaddeo di Bartolo , also known as Taddeo Bartoli, was an Italian painter of the Sienese School during the early Renaissance. He is among the artists profiled in Vasari's Le Vite delle più eccellenti pittori, scultori, ed architettori...
- Christ meeting women and the son of Zebedee and Noli Me TangereNoli me tangereNoli me tangere, meaning "don't touch me" / "touch me not", is the Latin version of words spoken, according to , by Jesus to Mary Magdalene when she recognizes him after his resurrection....
by Veronese - The bronze statue of Hercules dating from the 16th century and taken by the sculptor Jacob Richier the 17th century, a copy is placed in the center of the Garden City in Grenoble.
17th century
This section is devoted to the prestigious French paintings, Flemish hollandaises Spanish and Italian. It may in particular include:
- Saint Jerome by Georges de La TourGeorges de La TourGeorges de La Tour was a French Baroque painter, who spent most of his working life in the Duchy of Lorraine, which was temporarily absorbed into France between 1641 and 1648...
- The finest collection of paintings by Francisco ZurbaránFrancisco ZurbaránFrancisco de Zurbarán was a Spanish painter. He is known primarily for his religious paintings depicting monks, nuns, and martyrs, and for his still-lifes...
in a French museum. - Pope Gregory surrounded by saints by Rubens
- Six tables Philippe de ChampaignePhilippe de ChampaignePhilippe 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...
(second to the Louvre in collection size) - Noli Me Tangere and for The appearance of Christ to pilgrims of Emmaus Laurent de La HyreLaurent de La HyreLaurent de La Hyre was a French Baroque painter, born in Paris.La Hyre was greatly influenced by the work of Italian artists who came to Paris. He became a pupil of Georges Lallemand and studied the works of Primaticcio at Fontainebleau, but never visited Italy...
. - Part of a map hospitality of David TeniersDavid Teniers the YoungerDavid Teniers the Younger was a Flemish artist born in Antwerp, the son of David Teniers the Elder. His son David Teniers III and his grandson David Teniers IV were also painters...
, scene of daily life in the 17th century.
18th century
The works of this century presents majestic paintings of the French school, as martyrdom of St Andrew painted in 1749 by Jean Restout
Jean II Restout
Jean II Restout was a French painter, whose late baroque classicism rendered his altarpieces, such as the Death of Saint Scholastica an "isolated achievement" that ran counter to his rococo contemporaries.-Biography:...
for the Collégiale Saint-André in Grenoble.
Canaletto
Giovanni Antonio Canal better known as Canaletto , was a Venetian painter famous for his landscapes, or vedute, of Venice. He was also an important printmaker in etching.- Early career :...
The Doge of Venice worn by gondoliers by Francesco Guardi
Francesco Guardi
Francesco Lazzaro Guardi was a Venetian painter of veduta, a member of the Venetian School. He is considered to be among the last practitioners, along with his brothers, of the classic Venetian school of painting....
.
19th century
19th is illustrated by a remarkable set from neoclassicism
Neoclassicism
Neoclassicism is the name given to Western movements in the decorative and visual arts, literature, theatre, music, and architecture that draw inspiration from the "classical" art and culture of Ancient Greece or Ancient Rome...
until Nabis
Les Nabis
Les Nabis were a group of Post-Impressionist avant-garde artists who set the pace for fine arts and graphic arts in France in the 1890s. Initially a group of friends interested in contemporary art and literature, most of them studied at the private art school of Rodolphe Julian in Paris in the...
, with works by Ingres
Ingres
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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...
Théodore Géricault
Théodore Géricault
Jean-Louis André Théodore Géricault was a profoundly influential French artist, painter and lithographer, known for The Raft of the Medusa and other paintings...
, Camille Corot Gustave Courbet
Gustave Courbet
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Gustave Doré
Gustave Doré
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, Felix Vallotton
Félix Vallotton
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(Naked woman sitting in an armchair,1897), Frederic Bazille
Frédéric Bazille
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, Alfred Sisley
Alfred Sisley
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Camille Pissarro
Camille Pissarro
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Auguste Renoir, Paul Gauguin
Paul Gauguin
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(The River and White Portrait Madeleine Bernard) Theo Van Rysselberghe
Théo van Rysselberghe
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and Henri Fantin-Latour
Henri Fantin-Latour
Henri Fantin-Latour was a French painter and lithographer best known for his flower paintings and group portraits of Parisian artists and writers.-Biography:...
whose wife will be an important legacy to the museum in 1921.
Essentially art museum, the Museum of Grenoble retains sculptures of the 19th century mostly, including that of Phryne from 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:...
.
In room 17, is the plaster with a height of 2 meters Jean-François Champollion
Jean-François Champollion
Jean-François Champollion was a French classical scholar, philologist and orientalist, decipherer of the Egyptian hieroglyphs....
by the sculptor Bartholdi.
This plaster has served as a model for the marble sculpture of the Collège de France
Collège de France
The Collège de France is a higher education and research establishment located in Paris, France, in the 5th arrondissement, or Latin Quarter, across the street from the historical campus of La Sorbonne at the intersection of Rue Saint-Jacques and Rue des Écoles...
in Paris.
Regional art of 19th century
Dauphinoise school of the 19th century reached a level that justifies the prominence it held in the museum. The founder of this school, Jean Achard
Jean Achard
Jean Alexis Achard was a French painter.-Biography:Born in Voreppe, Isère, into a farming family, Jean Alexis Achard was self-taught and started his career as a clerk for a lawyer. He began his apprenticeship by copying paintings at the Museum of Grenoble...
gives the first majestic landscapes that will excite the painters following. Laurent Guetal, Charles Bertier Ernest Hebert
Ernest Hebert
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, the Abbe Cales.
20th century
The section of the 20th century is particularly rich because the museum is considered the oldest museum of contemporary art in France. The victories of modern art until the formal developments more recent.
Part of the collection from the important legacy Agutte
Georgette Agutte
Georgette Agutte was a French painter.She was the daughter of Jean Georges Agutte. In 1893 she joined Gustave Moreau's classes as a free pupil, and retained his teachings on the freedom of mind and independence....
- Sembat.
All trends are present with paint charts Henri Matisse
Henri Matisse
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, Pablo Picasso
Pablo Picasso
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, Georges Braque
Georges Braque
Georges Braque[p] was a major 20th century French painter and sculptor who, along with Pablo Picasso, developed the art style known as Cubism.-Early Life:...
, and others.
Matisse donated his Inside eggplant, Pablo Picasso from his Woman Reading in 1921 and Claude Monet's corner of the pond at Giverny in 1923.
Drawings
Located in the Tour de l'Isle, converted into graphic arts firm, the old collection account drawings mainly from donations and bequests of Léonce Mesnard to ((s | XIX | e)).
He will devote part of his life to his writings and collections.
At his death in May 1890, the mayor of Grenoble, Auguste Gaché, will praise his generosity as parts are bequeathed to the museum .
The Italian drawings predominate, including the Venetians, the Florentines of the Renaissance and the Seicento.
The funds of the French 17th century this is through people like Laurent de La Hyre
Laurent de La Hyre
Laurent de La Hyre was a French Baroque painter, born in Paris.La Hyre was greatly influenced by the work of Italian artists who came to Paris. He became a pupil of Georges Lallemand and studied the works of Primaticcio at Fontainebleau, but never visited Italy...
or Vouet
Simon Vouet
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.
The 18th century includes famous artists such as Watteau
Antoine Watteau
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Hubert Robert
Hubert Robert
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or Jacques-Louis David
Jacques-Louis David
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. School Hollandaise required by its significance with particular Jacob Jordaens
Jacob Jordaens
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and Rembrandt.
The ((-s | XIX | e)) is characterized by a series of important artists like 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...
Fantin-Latour or Jongkind with his watercolors of Dauphine. The collection is second in terms of importance to French museum after that of the Musée National d'Art Moderne
Musée National d'Art Moderne
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As for painting, it owes much to the policy Andry Farcy.
In 1923, the legacy Agutte Sembat-24 is back with the drawings in charcoal sketch of the dance Matisse 1909.
The sculpture garden
A sculpture garden, a concept born at ((s | XVII | e )) is installed around the perimeter east / north-west of the museum in Albert Park Michallon. Covering m² in 1964 is a first design gives this location a former Half MoonHalf Moon
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fortification, a garden status.
Overall the park is a square shape and embracing the path of the massive fortification wall of the end of ((s-| XIX | e)) that ends inside the museum.
It is in this park that is the oldest tree in the city, Lebanon Cedar
Lebanon Cedar
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, planted in 1847
It offers the unique opportunity in the heart of town to exhibit sculptures outdoors. The park surface Michallon does not allow to extend indefinitely the presentation of sculptures in 1988, the choice of management is focused on the period of the 20th century, consistent with the extensive collection of contemporary art museum.
Before the museum, partly framed by the walls of the end of ((s | XVI | e)) built by the Duke of Lesdiguieres
François de Bonne, duc de Lesdiguières
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, is added to the park, the esplanade François Mitterrand, which are implanted in steel works and a bronze statue.
From the forecourt of the museum, the visit starts with the Esplanade François Mitterrand:
- Alexander CalderAlexander CalderAlexander Calder was an American sculptor and artist most famous for inventing mobile sculptures. In addition to mobile and stable sculpture, Alexander Calder also created paintings, lithographs, toys, tapestry, jewelry and household objects.-Childhood:Alexander "Sandy" Calder was born in Lawnton,...
- ringmaster, height 9 feet, painted steel 1993 - Mark di SuveroMark di SuveroMarco Polo "Mark" di Suvero is an American abstract expressionist sculptor born Marco Polo Levi in Shanghai, China in 1933 to Italian expatriates. He immigrated to San Francisco, California in 1942 with his family. From 1953 to 1957, he attended the University of California, Berkeley to study...
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Marcel Gimond
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and continues round the museum along the Isère to enter the park Albert Michallon.
Temporary exhibitions
In addition to space devoted to the presentation of collections Permane halls on an area of 1000 square meters are reserved for temporary exhibitions.Each year, two major exhibitions are organized to help make the museum an important center of French artistic life. On leaving these rooms, a pool of water encourages visitors to take a break.
- 1995: Rebecca HornRebecca HornRebecca Horn is a German installation artist and film director most famous for her body modifications such as Einhorn , a body-suit with a very large horn projecting vertically from the headpiece, and Pencil Mask, a mesh harness for the head with many pencils projecting out...
- 1998: The feeling of the mountain
- 2000: Eustache Lesueur
- 2005: Jean AchardJean AchardJean Alexis Achard was a French painter.-Biography:Born in Voreppe, Isère, into a farming family, Jean Alexis Achard was self-taught and started his career as a clerk for a lawyer. He began his apprenticeship by copying paintings at the Museum of Grenoble...
, Laurent Guetal, Charles Bertier: three masters of the Dauphinois landscape in 19th century - 2006: BraqueGeorges BraqueGeorges Braque[p] was a major 20th century French painter and sculptor who, along with Pablo Picasso, developed the art style known as Cubism.-Early Life:...
, KleeKleeKlee , named after Paul Klee, is a German pop-band from Cologne.-Lineup 2002-2010 :* Suzie Kerstgens * Tom Deininger * Sten Servaes -Lineup 2010-present :...
, LegerFernand LégerJoseph 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... - 2007: Impressionism in France and America
- 2008: Collection of African art, heritage revealed.
- 2008: Wolfgang LaibWolfgang LaibWolfgang Laib is a German conceptual artist working predominantly with natural materials.-Biography:Laib studied medicine in the 1970s in Tübingen...
Withoutplace, Without Time, Without Body - 2009: Henriette Deloras, Marc Pessin
- 2009: Patrick Faigenbaum, Gerhard RichterGerhard RichterGerhard Richter is a German visual artist. Richter has simultaneously produced abstract and photorealistic painted works, as well as photographs and glass pieces, thus undermining the concept of the artist’s obligation to maintain a single cohesive style.- Biography :Gerhard Richter was born in...
, Alex KatzAlex KatzAlex Katz is an American figurative artist associated with the Pop art movement. In particular, he is known for his paintings, sculptures, and prints and is represented by numerous galleries internationally.-Life and work:...
, Gregory Forstner, Duncan Wylie, Gaston Chaissac - 2010:
- 6 March to 30 May 2010:In flesh and spirit - Italian drawings of ( (sp-| XV | e | at | XVIII|e))
- March 6 to May 30, 2010: Read Impressionism, six tables six masters
- July 3, 2010 to January 9, 2011: ' 'The General Beylié, collector and patron
- October 30, 2010 to January 23, 2011: Stephan Balkenhol
- 2011:
- 5 March to 13 June : Chagall et l'avant garde russe