The Musée des Beaux-Arts de Strasbourg (Museum of Fine Arts of Strasbourg) is the old masters paintings collection of the city of Strasbourg, located in the Alsace region of France. The museum is housed in the first and second floors of the baroque Palais Rohan since 1898. It presents a fascinating overview of the history of European painting from its debut to 1870: Italian and Flemmish Primitives (Giotto, Memling), Renaissance and Mannerism (Botticelli, Raphael, Veronese, Lucas van Leyden, El Greco); Baroque, Naturalism and Classicism from the 17th and 18th centuries (Rubens, Vouet, Zurbaran, Largilliere, Canaletto, Tiepolo, Goya); 19th century (Delacroix, Chasseriau, Corot, Courbet).

The museum owns about 865 works (as of 2009), of which 250 are on permanent display. The old masters from the upper-Rhenish area until 1681 are exhibited in the neighboring Musée de l'Oeuvre Notre-Dame.

You can find more information at the home page of the museum (external link).

Recommended viewing from the collection:

• La Belle Strasbourgeoise by Nicolas de Largillière,
• Clair de Lune (Moonlight) by Philip Jacques de Loutherbourg.

The Web Gallery of Art contains 18 images of paintings exhibited in the Musée des Beaux-Arts.

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This page was last updated on 13 February 2022.