Musée Fabre

Recently refurbished and extended by the architectural firm of Pike Lajus Peyo-associated Emmanuel Nebout Montpellier, the Fabre Museum in Montpellier, exhibits nearly 800 works in an area covering over 9.200m2

Re-opened in 2007, it was originally opened in 1825 by the local artist François-Xavier Fabre, it remains to this day a central part of Montpellier and in actual fact, Frace.

As of 2007, the museum has a holding of approximately 1,800 paintings, 4,000 drawings and 1,500 prints. It is complemented by a collection of hundreds of sculptures. 

The museum itself holds Dutch, Italian, Spanish and French collections.

Painters of the great European schools of the 16th to the 18th centuries including Zurbaran, Reynolds, Tenier and from the French schools Greuze, Ingres, Delacroix and Courbet to name a few.

The museum has four main collections, Old Masters, Modern Movements, Graphic Arts and Decorative Arts.

Do not miss the Steen Room and it's Dutch collection.

Old Masters

The Musée Fabre's collections of 15th- to 19th-century painting and sculpture fall into three major stylistic and chronological groups. The itinerary begins with Flemish and Dutch painting in the 17th century, followed by European painting from the 14th century to the mid-18th century, and ends with the Neoclassical period (late 18th – early 19th century). 

Modern Movements

Our popular vision of the artist as an inspired, solitary, creative genius was born with the Romantic era – the starting-point for the Musée Fabre's collections of modern art, which are housed in the northern wing of the Collège des Jésuites. Romanticism, Orientalism, Ingrism, Realism, Impressionism, and Fauvism are all represented, together with the rise of abstraction, which dominates the latter part of the collection.

Graphic Arts

Rightly considered the most important, both in number and in quality, the French collection contains a remarkable ensemble of drawings from the 17th and 18th centuries, with examples by Poussin, Le Brun, Boucher, Fragonard, Greuze and David

Decorative Arts

The collection includes a number of remarkable items of furniture stamped with the names of celebrated cabinetmakers (Béfort, Pillot, Delorme, Sené, Bury, Fromageau), important sculptures (Pajou, Bosio...) and some paintings characteristic of their taste (Lebourg, Trouillebert, Stevens).

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