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The Château de La Bâtie-Seyssel comprises two fortified enceintes, surrounding a residential building. The main access is through three successive gateways. The first has kept its ogival arcade and the vault supporting the guard room. The second gateway was altered in the 17th century to a semicircular arch; it is framed by two towers.
Au cirque, le peintre et le saltimbanque, shown at the Musée de la Chartreuse de Douai 9 April-18 July 2004. Commissariat Général : Françoise Baligand & Zéev Gourarier. Catalogue : Au cirque, le peintre et le saltimbanque, collectif, Musée de la Chartreuse, Douai - Somogy Éditions d'Art, Paris (2004). ISBN 2-85056-736-1.
La Bâtie-des-Fonds (French pronunciation: [la bati de fɔ̃]; Occitan: La Bastiá des Fònts) is a commune in the Drôme department in southeastern France. Population
Musée des Monuments Français, Galerie Davioud. The Musée national des Monuments Français (French pronunciation: [myze nasjɔnal de mɔnymɑ̃ fʁɑ̃sɛ], lit. ' National Museum of French Monuments ') is today a museum of plaster casts of French monuments located in the Palais de Chaillot, 1, place du Trocadéro et du 11 Novembre, Paris, France.
The Baroness de Montaran's, which included three paintings by Boucher, twenty Gudin and one Mignard, was the most remarkable bequest of the second half of the nineteenth century. The largest donation in the history of the museum was bequeathed in 1872 by the Caen bookseller Bernard Mancel, who had purchased in 1845 a large part of Cardinal ...
The Petit Palais (French: [pəti palɛ]; English: Small Palace) is an art museum in the 8th arrondissement of Paris, France.. Built for the 1900 Exposition Universelle ("universal exhibition"), it now houses the City of Paris Museum of Fine Arts (Musée des beaux-arts de la ville de Paris).
Earlier suggestions were Musée du Trocadéro, after the home of the Musée de l'Homme where it was initially to be located, Musée des arts premiers ("first arts", corresponding to the politically incorrect "primitive art"), or Musée [de l'homme,] des arts et des civilisations ("museum of [man,] the arts and civilizations").
Initially, the museum shared the premises of the Musée des Beaux-Arts de Bordeaux, [4] in a building designed by Charles Burguet. [5] In 1980, the Archaeological Society of Bordeaux signed an agreement with the city of Bordeaux to deposit the majority of its collections at the Museum of Aquitaine.