About the museum
The story of the Musée des Beaux-Arts de Lyon
The Musée des Beaux-Arts de Lyon occupies a former seventeenth-century Benedictine abbey on the Place des Terreaux. It was founded in 1801 and is one of the largest fine-arts museums in France.
Its paintings range from Veronese and Rubens to Delacroix, Monet, Gauguin and Picasso, around a quiet cloister garden.
The collection
The museum's collection runs from Egyptian antiquities to the twentieth century. Its painting galleries include Perugino, Veronese, Rubens's Adoration of the Magi, Rembrandt and Zurbarán's Saint Francis.
The nineteenth-century and modern rooms hold Delacroix, Géricault, Courbet, Monet, Renoir, Gauguin, Van Gogh, Matisse and Picasso, as well as painters of the Lyon school such as Puvis de Chavannes.
At ArtLogia you can order 90 of its paintings as hand-painted reproductions, by 57 artists led by Louis Janmot, Pietro Perugino and Hippolyte Flandrin.
- paintings to order
- 90
- artists
- 57
- art movements
- 13
- years covered
- 1414–1946
The building
The museum is housed in the Palais Saint-Pierre, a former Benedictine convent for noblewomen rebuilt in the seventeenth century. Puvis de Chavannes painted the murals of its grand staircase.
Masterpieces to see
Planning a visit
The cloister garden is free to enter and is one of the calmest spots in central Lyon.
