The brainchild of the Ukrainian Princess, Elisabeth Vassilievna Kotschoubey- the Musée des Beaux-Arts Jules Chéret in Nice saw its genesis way back in 1878. Christened after the legendary artistic genius, Jules Chéret, who lived and worked in Nice during the last years of his life, the museum got inaugurated officially in 1928. Housed in a grand private mansion at the Avenue des Baumettes, the place is a one of the topmost Tourist Attractions in Nice, without which your Nice vacation remains half done.
Musee des Beaux-Arts boasts a priceless collection of art embracing a vast time scale of the past four centuries. This assemblage of 6,000 works of art includes masterpieces dating from the 17th century to the late 1940's. Talking about paintings, Nice's Musee des Beaux-Arts houses creations by Chéret and Gustav Adolf Mossa, who lived and worked on the French Riviera for a pretty long time. Gustav Adolf Mossa, has been been the curator of the museum too for a substantial period of time. Some of the paintings that have bemused the global art connoisseurs over the years, includes:
- Marie Bashkirtseff
- Benjamin Constant
- Kees Van Dongen
- Raoul Dufy
- Marie Laurencin
- Luc-Olivier Merson
- Alfred Sisley
- Edouard Vuillard
Coming to the sculptures, Musee des Beaux-Arts, Nice, France has a plethora of them starting from marvels by Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux, François Rude and Auguste Rodin to the ceramic pieces by Pablo Picasso.
While on a tryst with the Musee des Beaux-Arts, on your Nice Tours, do visit the two exhibition spaces that are entirely devoted to modern art, featuring Kees Van Dongen and Raoul Dufy. And do not miss out on the important collection by a dynasty of painters, the Dutch Vanloo family, of which the most noted one has been Carle Vanloo. Born in Nice in 1705, this legendary artist went on to become the premier painter of Louis XV's.
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