About the museum
The story of the Musée Fabre
The Musée Fabre in Montpellier was founded in 1825 by the painter François-Xavier Fabre, who gave his collection to his native city.
It is one of the leading fine-arts museums in France, with important works by Courbet, Bazille and Delacroix, and a modern collection centred on Pierre Soulages.
The collection
François-Xavier Fabre, a pupil of David who lived for many years in Florence, gave Montpellier his collection of Italian, French and Dutch paintings in 1825. Later gifts by Alfred Bruyas, the friend and patron of Courbet, made the museum famous for Realism.
Frédéric Bazille, born in Montpellier, is also shown in depth, and the museum gave a room of its modern galleries to the abstract painter Pierre Soulages, who was born nearby.
At ArtLogia you can order 68 of its paintings as hand-painted reproductions, by 32 artists led by Gustave Courbet, Frédéric Bazille and Jean-Baptiste Greuze.
- paintings to order
- 68
- artists
- 32
- art movements
- 9
- years covered
- 1540–1889
The building
The museum occupies a former Jesuit college and an eighteenth-century town house. A major renovation, completed in 2007, added a new entrance and galleries around a garden.
Masterpieces to see
Planning a visit
The museum faces the Esplanade Charles de Gaulle, next to Montpellier's Place de la Comédie.
