Musée des Beaux-Arts d'Orléans
Inside the museum | |
| Established | 1797 |
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| Location | 1 rue Fernand Rabier 45 000 Orléans, France |
| Coordinates | 47°54′09″N 1°54′34″E / 47.9025881°N 1.9095664°E |
| Visitors | 51 331 (2012) |
The Musée des beaux-arts d'Orléans is a museum in the city of Orléans in the Loiret department and the Centre-Val de Loire region in France.
Founded in 1797, it is one of France's oldest provincial museums. Its collections cover European arts from the 15th to 20th century.
The museum owns circa 2,000 paintings (with works by Correggio, Annibale Carracci, Guido Reni, Sebastiano Ricci, Diego Velázquez, Anthony van Dyck, Antoine Watteau, François Boucher, Hubert Robert, Eugène Delacroix (Head of a Woman), Gustave Courbet, 700 sculptures (Baccio Bandinelli), more than 1,200 pieces of decorative arts, 10,000 drawings, 50,000 prints and the second largest collection of pastels in France after that of the Louvre.