The history of art is often made up of exciting rediscoveries... In 2017, the Musée des Beaux-Arts d'Orléans put the spotlight back on an artist long forgotten by history, remaining off the radar of posterity despite his prominent place: [...]
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- May 30, 2025
On April 22, 2025, the Museums of Orléans and the Friends of the Museums launched a fund-raising campaign to acquire a painting by Jean-Antoine Laurent, who in 1819 captured the memory of his visit to [...].
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- May 6, 2025
The Museums of Orléans and the Friends of the Museums are launching their fourth participatory sponsorship campaign to acquire an emblematic work of art with a Johannine theme. Help the Orléans museums acquire this painting during the Fêtes de Jeanne d'Arc, which celebrates [...]
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- 22 Apr 2025
In the 19th century, Joan of Arc exerted a fascination far beyond the borders of France, and even in England, which maintained an ambiguous relationship with her memory. William Etty, one of the leading English artists of the first half of the century, dedicated his [...]
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- Mar 26, 2025
In 2016, the museum attempted to acquire this drawing, then attributed to the Spanish school, but in fact preparatory to an altarpiece painted around 1640 by Orléans-born Pierre Poncet, which was seized during the French Revolution and [...].
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- February 21, 2025
A rediscovery joins the collections of the Musée des Beaux-Arts d'Orléans thanks to the patronage of the Fondation La Marck. This remarkable composition on copper was returned to Charles Le Brun by Nicolas Milovanovic and Philippe Champy, and is now [...].
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- Jan 31, 2025
One of the few paintings by Henri Gaudier-Brzeska joins the artist's reference collection, assembled from the 1956 donation by Jim Ede (1895-1990) of part of the studio divided between Orléans, the Musée national d'art moderne and Kettle's Yard, [...].
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- Jan 21, 2025
The work: Mason and shoemaker A large painting by Austrian-born painter Giacomo Francesco Cipper, known as Il Todeschini (1664-1736), joins the ranks of 18th-century Italian paintings, with a subject that is enigmatic to say the least! If the date, circa 1710, [...]
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- Jan 16, 2025
Painter Julie Duvidal de Montferrier's "Bacchus enfant" has had an eventful history! It met with great success at the Salon of 1822, and was acquired by the Duc d'Orléans, future king Louis-Philippe and [...].
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- Sep 13, 2024
The Musée des Beaux-Arts has acquired Alexandre Antigna's Naufrage by pre-emption for €570. Born in Orléans in 1817, Alexandre Antigna won considerable acclaim in Paris in the 1840s.
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- August 8, 2024
Lot of over 1000 glass plates, negatives and stereoscopic views A sale of Louis-Maurice Boutet de Monvel's studio has enabled the museum to acquire an archive, including a box containing over 1000 photos (glass plates, negatives and stereoscopic [...].
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- July 18, 2024
Following the exhibition À la poursuite de la beauté. Diary from the Prat collection, the collector couple, in agreement with the curators, donated two drawings linked to the history of the Musée d'Orléans. They will join the museum's [...]
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- June 26, 2024