The museum of fine arts and archeology of Dole

Dole, Jura

Dole is a commune in the Jura department in the Franche-Comté region in eastern France, of which it is a subprefecture ....

was founded in 1821. Since 1980, the museum is installed in the House of the Officers, an example of military architecture of Franche-Comté

Franche-Comté

Franche-Comté the former "Free County" of Burgundy, as distinct from the neighbouring Duchy, is an administrative region and a traditional province of eastern France...

 at the 18th century.

Collections

The collections comprise three sections: archeology, ancient art and contemporary art

Contemporary art

Contemporary art can be defined variously as art produced at this present point in time or art produced since World War II. The definition of the word contemporary would support the first view, but museums of contemporary art commonly define their collections as consisting of art produced...

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Archeology: It is a matter of the archeological discoveries in the area of Jura, from the Neolithic to the Merovingian era.

Ancient art:

• Burgundian and of Franche-Comté sculptures from the Middle Age to the 18th century (G. Lullier, F.-M. Rosset, C.-F. Attiret),
• French paintings 17th century and 18th century (S. Vouet, E. Allegrain, Ch.-A. Coypel), Italian ones (F. Albani, L. Giordano, G. Assereto) and Nordic ones (Maître de Saint-Gilles, P. van Boucle, C. Gysbrechts).
• Paintings from the 19th century (J. B. Jongkind, G. Courbet), in particular from local artistes (J.-D. Attiret, A. Pointelin, J. Machard, G. Brun).
• The History of Franche-Comté
  Franche-Comté
  Franche-Comté the former "Free County" of Burgundy, as distinct from the neighbouring Duchy, is an administrative region and a traditional province of eastern France...
  
   is represented by conquest scenes painted by van der Meulen, Martin des Batailles and Martin des Gobelins.

Contemporary art

Contemporary art

Contemporary art can be defined variously as art produced at this present point in time or art produced since World War II. The definition of the word contemporary would support the first view, but museums of contemporary art commonly define their collections as consisting of art produced...

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• Paintings of artists who worked in France since the 60’ having for theme art and corporation: the Narrative Figuration (Fromanger, Rancillac, Monory, Erro) and the New Realism (Arman, Villeglé, Deschamps).

• Temporary expositions:
  • 1985: Claude-Max Lochu
    Claude-Max Lochu
    French artist, painter and designer, Claude-Max Lochu was born in 1951 in Delle in Territoire de Belfort, Franche-Comté and completed his degree at the École des Beaux-Arts of Besançon...
    
    
  • 2005: Claude François Marie Attiret
  • 2006: Helen Frik: The Frik Collection
  • 2007: Lucien Fleury

External links

• Musée des Beaux-Arts de Dole
• Musée des Beaux-Arts de Dole sur le site des Musées de Franche-Comté