Musée Denon

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The Denon Museum is a French municipal art museum inaugurated in 1866, located in Chalon-sur-Saône in Saône-et-Loire. The museum bears this name in tribute to Dominique Vivant Denon, draftsman, engraver, writer, diplomat and French administrator, considered a great forerunner of museumology, art history and Egyptology. Two major sections make up the Denon Museum:

Fine Arts with about 10,000 objects where paintings, drawings, engravings, sculptures are the majority. In addition to a graphic arts firm devoted largely to Denon, it offers remarkable French, Italian, Flemish and Dutch paintings from the 16th to the 19th century. archaeology illustrating the presence of man in the Chalonese region for about 100 thousand years. Since January 5, 2004, the Denon Museum has been listed as a historic monument.

The museum building is first a free drawing school founded by Jacques-François Carbillet. This school is intended to train artisans and workers. The building was erected in 1820 by Mercadier, according to Jacques-François Carbillet's drawings, in a neo-classical taste. The museum is inaugurated in...