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Located near the former Place Royale and the Palais des Ducs in Dijon, in one of the finest town houses of the seventeenth century, this national museum owes its existence to two keen collectors : Maurice Magnin (1861-1939), a high-ranking Parisian magistrate, and his sister...
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BILINGUAL FRENCH / ENGLISH
Located near the former Place Royale and the Palais des Ducs in Dijon, in one of the finest town houses of the seventeenth century, this national museum owes its existence to two keen collectors : Maurice Magnin (1861-1939), a high-ranking Parisian magistrate, and his sister Jeanne Magnin (1855-1937), an amateur painter and art critic.
Determined to preserve the spirit of the place, Maurice Magnin undertook, in the 1930s, the renovation of the town house so he could present his collection of artworks there without changing the historic nature of the residence. The buildings still have the distinctive charm of an authentic collector's home.
The collection contains a wide variety of works, including more than a thousand paintings : works by painters from the Northern school (Brueghel the Younger), from Bologna, Florence and Venice, and by the big names of French painting of Cardinal Mazarin's time (Le Sueur, La Hyre). While the seventeenth century has pride of place in the French collection, Jeanne and Maurice Magnin also had a taste for the painted sketches of the eighteenth century and were eager to champion the forgotten talents of the nineteenth century, particularly those of the Romantic period.
Bilingual French / English
128 pages
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