As with other things in Nancy, we underestimated the Musee des Beaux Artes, thinking we might do it in a couple hours. How good could a provincial art museum be, anyway? We spent much of the day there, taking a lunch break between the fine regular collection and the extraordinary collection of Daum glass, which will be a separate post. Below, as usual, just some biggies and personal favorites, with many others relegated to the eventual out-takes. And, again, the whole museum is available for a digital tour at https://musee-des-beaux-arts.nancy.fr/en/visit/download-the-application.
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| Tintoretto, Deposition, 1580 |
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| Vasari, Saint Trinity, 1558 |
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| Lucas of Leiden, Passion, 1533 |
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Martinus Roejmerswalen, The Money Counters, end of 16th;
popular genre piece; love those hats |
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Jan Breughel, the Younger, Don't Touch Me (JC with Mary Magdalen),
1625; seriously; the title in French is Ne me touche pas |
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| Caravaggio, Annunciation, 1610; note angel derriere |
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Pierre-Paul Rubens, Transfiguration, 1605; same huge size and
composition as the version that is a center-piece in the Vatican Museum |
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Georges de la Tour, The Woman and the Flea, 1638;
pet flea? |
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Claude Gellee, called Lorrain, Pastoral Scene, 1635; everywhere
else he's Claude Gellee or even Claude Lorrain; but here in
Lorrain, he's The Lorrain; pretty much his entire career in Italy |
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| The Lorrain, Battle Scene near a Fortress, 1638 |
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Ribera, Baptism of Christ, 1643; definitely not full
immersion |
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Luini, Circumcision, 1632; never miss a Luini; never
miss a Circumcision |
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| Charles LeBrun, Virgin and Infant, 1650 |
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Poussin, Entry of Christ into Jerusalem; due to the orange glow,
I can spot a Poussin at about 40 paces; I theorize he was beta carotene
deficient; should have eaten more carrots; also almost his whole career
in Italy
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Fragonard, Apotheosis of Saint Louis, 1758; didn't see
a Watteau; alas... |
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| A pair of Art Nouveau (frames), Victor Prouve, Joy of Life, 1904 |
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| And his L'isle heureuse, 1902 |
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Delacroix, The Battle of Nancy, 1833 (Lorrain won, the Duke of Burgundy getting skewered as above) |
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| Gerard, Portrait of a Young Woman and Boa, 1810 |
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Gustav Dore, Sortie from Sebastopol, 1855; personally, I think Dore
is the most underrated painter of the mid-19th |
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| Courbet, Portrait of Zelie Courbet (his sister), 1853 |
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Auguste Feyen-Perrin, Barque of the Caron, 1860s; hey, it worked
for Gericault |
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In addition to fantasy illustrations and large format
group portraits (the Orsay has two or three), Dore also
did landscapes, here, his Mountain Landscape, 1870 |
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| Monet, Sunset at Etretat, 1883 |
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| Emile Friant, Les Amoureux, 1888 |
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| Roualt, Pierrotins, 1932 |
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| Manet, L'Automne, 1882 |
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| Modigliani, Blonde Woman, 1918 |
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And just because I never got a decent picture of the
statue on Place Stanislaus, here is Rene-Michel Slotz'
bust of Stanislaus, 1740 |
