Museum of Fine Arts of Nancy

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The Museum of Fine Arts of Nancy (French: Musée des Beaux-Arts de Nancy), one of the oldest museums in France, is housed in one of the inspections on the Place Stanislas, in the heart of the 18th-century urban ensemble, a World Heritage Site by UNESCO. The museum displays an important collection of European paintings and is widely open to design, including a gallery dedicated to Jean Prouvé or the Daum factory.

History: The Museum of Fine Arts of Nancy is one of the oldest in France. Its foundation intervenes, as for other French museum institutions, during the revolutionary period. The first collections are made from the seizures of the property of the clergy or aristocratic families who migrate to Flee France and the Revolution. Under the First Empire, with the signing of the peace treaty between France and Austria in Lunaville in 1801, Napoleon I bought 30 paintings from the Central Museum in Lorraine (now the Louvre Museum). Thus, the museum of Nancy receives a large set of French paintings of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. The same year, the museum enjoys, like 15 other museums in France, shipping of works under the Chaptal decree. These paintings come from 16d...