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Musée des Beaux-Arts de Dijon

Established	1787
Location	Palace of the Dukes of Burgundy Dijon, 21000 France
Visitor figures	150 000/year
Director	Sophie Jugie
Website	mba.dijon.fr

The Musée des Beaux-Arts de Dijon is a museum of fine arts opened in 1787 in Dijon, France. It is housed in the Palace of the Dukes of Burgundy in the historic center of Dijon.

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History

The Musée include a large and varied collection of art:

Various remains of the lavish court of the Dukes of Burgundy, including the famous tombs of Philip the Bold, John the Fearless and Margaret of Bavaria with their mourners^[1]^[2] from the Chartreuse of Champmol.
A collection of Egyptian antiquities with a rare series of Fayum mummy portraits
A collection of Roman art from Switzerland and Germany unique in France
Some famous works from the Renaissance, seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, including works by Melchior Broederlam, , Verrocchio, Robert Campin (known as the Master of Flémalle), Ambrogio Lorenzetti, Lorenzo Lotto, Titian, Jacopo Pontormo, Paolo Veronese, Jan Brueghel the Elder, Guido Reni, Georges de la Tour, Rubens, Brueghel, Philippe de Champaigne, Charles Le Brun, Jean-Baptiste Greuze, Hubert Robert
A balanced representation of different currents of Nineteenth century and a significant body of work of the sculptor Pompon
A section of modern art including Granville gift: Théodore Géricault, Eugène Boudin, Claude Monet, Edouard Manet, Alfred Sisley, Georges Braque, Juan Gris, Georges Rouault
Representative works of the school of Paris from 1950 to 1970 with Charles Lapicque, Vieira da Silva, Nicolas de Staël

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