Municipal Museum of Bourg-en-Bresse

The museum is located in one of the wings of the second of the three cloisters in the Monastery of Brou, in Bourg-en-Bresse prefecture of the Ain department in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region in Eastern France. The museum covers 6,000m2. == History ==

The museum was founded in 1854. The main collection of the museum was originally made up of 120 paintings donated in the middle of the 19th century by Thomas Riboud FR] (1765–1835), lawyer and deputy of Ain who saved the abbey from destruction and protected it as a national monument. As of 2022, 434 items were on display. == Collections ==

Flemish and Dutch paintings The collection of Flemish and Dutch paintings includes four paintings by the official painter of the Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor, two of which are the portraits of young Charles V and Margaret of Austria, Frans Snyders, Frans Franken, Pieter Codde, Adam Frans van der Meulen, Adriaen van der Kabel, Gerard Seghers, Bartholomeus Breenbergh, Pieter Neefs the Younger and Melchior d'Hondecoeter. File:Bourg en Bresse eglise de brou museum 007.JPG|Bernard Van Orley, Marguerite d’Autriche, (1518). File:Peinture Portrait de Charles Quint musée de Bourg-en-Bresse (France).jpg|Bernard Van Orley, Charles Quint jeune, (1516). File:Bourg en Bresse eglise de brou museum 002.JPG|Bernard Van Orley, Vierge à l’Enfant. File:Bourg en Bresse eglise de brou museum 005.JPG|Ecole flamande, brugeoise (15e), détail de Sainte Véronique. File:Bourg en Bresse eglise de brou museum 003.JPG|Colijn de Coter, Le Christ de douleur (1480-90). File:Vie de saint Jérôme.jpg|Grégoire Guérard,Triptyque de saint Jérôme, 1518 Italian paintings Italian paintings include two paintings by Defendente Ferrari as well as works by and Pietro della Vecchia and Francesco Fontebasso. La déposition de la croix.jpg|Defendente Ferrari, La déposition de la croix, (1505-1507) French paintings Featured French paintings up to the 18th century include works by Benoît Alhoste and Jacques Bizet's Nature morte aux vieux livres (English: Still life with old books) as well as works by Jean Jouvenet, Nicolas Pierre Loir, René-Antoine Houasse, François de Troy and Nicolas de Largillierre. Musée municipal de Bourg-en-Bresse.jpg|Une des salles du musée consacrée à la peinture. Fr Brou Nature morte aux vieux livres.jpg|Jacques Bizet, Nature morte aux vieux livres (vers 1650). 19th-century French paintings include paintings in the troubadour style by Fleury François Richard, Pierre Révoil, Gustave Moreau, Gustave Doré (and also one of his sculptures), Jean-François Millet, Elisa Blondel, and Louis Janmot. File:Bourg en Bresse eglise de brou museum 008.JPG|Jean-Augustin Franquelin, Jeune femme devant son miroir, vers 1830. File:Vert-Vert (Jacquand).jpg|Claudius Jacquand, Vert-Vert, 1835. File:Francois 1er visitant Brou.jpg|Auguste Mathieu, Visite de François 1er à Brou, 1842. File:Gustave Doré - Dante et Virgile dans le neuvième cercle de l'Enfer.jpg|Gustave Doré, ''Dante et Virgile dans le neuvième cercle de l'enfer'', 1861. French 20th century paintings include works by Jacques-Émile Blanche, Pierre Soulages and Olivier Debré. Other modern paintings Other items that have featured in the museum include paintings by Shahabuddin Ahmed. Other collections The museum's refectory also houses 12th–17th century religious sculptures, as well as furniture and earthenware. == Exhibitions ==

• 2014 – L’Invention du passé, featuring paintings by Fleury Richard, Pierre Révoil, Henriette Lorimer, François-Marius Granet and Louis Daguerre. • 2021 – Valadon et ses contemporaines, featuring women painters == References ==