Musée Granet

Facade of the Musée Granet

The Musée Granet is a museum in the quartier Mazarin, Aix-en-Provence, France devoted to painting, sculpture and archeology. In 2011, the museum received 177,598 visitors.^[1]

History

The museum, adjacent to the Church of Saint-Jean-de-Malte, first opened in 1838 in buildings previously belonging to the priory of Saint-Jean-de-Malte. It still shares a common garden with the church.^[2]

Permanent collection

It recently underwent significant restoration and reorganization, prior to the international exhibition in 2006 marking the centenary of Cézanne's death.^[3] Due to lack of space, the large archeological collection, including many recent discoveries, will be displayed in a new museum, still in the planning stages. The museum contains major paintings by Jean-Dominique Ingres (among which the monumental "Jupiter and Thetis"), an authentic self-portrait by Rembrandt and works by Anthony van Dyck, Paul Cézanne, Alberto Giacometti and Nicolas de Staël.

Planque collection

In June 2011, the first part of the collection of the Fondation Jean et Suzanne Planque opened at the Musée Granet, containing over 180 artworks. This legacy of the Swiss painter, dealer and art collector Jean Planque, a personal friend of Pablo Picasso, has been donated to the city for an initial period of 15 years. The collection contains over 300 works of art, including paintings and drawings by Degas, Renoir. Gauguin, Monet, Cézanne, Van Gogh, Picasso, Pierre Bonnard, Paul Klee, Fernand Léger, Giacometti and Dubuffet. The full collection will be housed in a specially constructed annex in the Chapelle des Pénitents Blancs, situated nearby: the expected opening is in 2013.

Gallery

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  Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres: Portrait of François Marius Granet, donor of the museum's core collection
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  François Marius Granet: Pumpkin harvesting at Malvalat
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  Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres: Jupiter and Thetis
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  Paul Cézanne: portrait of Marie-Hortense Fiquet, the artist's wife, 1885-1887
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  Sculptures of severed heads from the pre-Roman Celto-Ligurian settlement of Entremont, north of Aix
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  Nineteenth century busts in the sculpture gallery

Notes

1. p.9 "Aix en Dialogue - Mars/Avril 2012 - Aix-en-Provence : Mairie d'Aix-en-Provence". Archived from the original on 2013-04-12. Retrieved 2013-03-13.
2. "Website of the Musée Granet". Museegranet-aixenprovence.fr. Archived from the original on 23 April 2010. Retrieved 15 April 2010.
3. "Reopening of the Musée Granet in Aix-en-Provence – The Art Tribune". The Art Tribune<!. 20 August 2007. Retrieved 22 May 2009.

References

• Bouyala d'Arnaud, André (1964), Évocation du vieil Aix-en-Provence, éditions de Minuit, ISBN 978-2-7073-0271-7
• Castaldo, Inès (2011), Le Quartier Mazarin. Habiter noblement à Aix-en-Provence, Le Temps de l'Histoire, Presses universitaires de Provence, ISBN 978-2-85399-789-8
• Roux, Jean-Marie (1987), Saint-Jean-de-Malte. Une église de l'ordre de Malte à Aix-en-Provence, Édisud

External links

• Homepage of Musée Granet

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