A new catalog

The Musée d'Orléans opened two years later, on November 4, 1825, in the Hôtel des Créneaux. The Comte de Bizemont was able to unite collectors to see the birth of this museum... which was already too small when it opened! It was destined to grow, expanding first in the Hôtel Cabu - Musée d'Histoire et d'Archéologie, in the Musée Paul Fourché (destroyed in 1940), in the Muséum, which became the MOBE in 2021, and then definitively recast as the Musée des Beaux-Arts with its move to the building inaugurated in 1984 opposite the cathedral. Thanks to this commitment, the painting collection has become one of the most important in France. To accompany this anniversary, the MBA is publishing a catalog raisonné of French and Italian paintings from the ^15th, ^16th and ^17th centuries, the fruit of several years' work by leading French specialists.