Museum of Fine Arts of Nancy

Museum of Fine Arts of Nancy
Museum of Fine Arts of Nancy

The Museum of Fine Arts of Nancy (in French: Musée des Beaux-Arts de Nancy) is one of the oldest museums in France. It was created in 1793. It is hosted in one of the four large pavilions on the Place Stanislas created in 1755 by Stanislas Leszczyński, duke of Lorraine.

Some of the painters whose work is featured in the collections are Perugino, Tintoretto, Jan Brueghel the Younger, Caravaggio, Georges de La Tour, Charles Le Brun, Ribera, Rubens, Claude Gellée (known as Le Lorrain and Claude), Luca Giordano, François Boucher, Eugène Delacroix, Edouard Manet, Claude Monet, Paul Signac, Modigliani, Picasso, Raoul Dufy...

The museum is open very day from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. except on Tuesdays, and is closed 1st January, 1st May, 14th July, 1st November and 25th December. It is accessible to disabled persons.

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Coordinates: 48°41′37″N 6°10′57″E / 48.6935°N 6.1824°E / 48.6935; 6.1824


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