Musée des Beaux-Arts de Nice

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The Musée des Beaux-Arts de Nice<ref>musee-beaux-arts-nice.org</ref> in Nice, France at 33 av. des Baumettes was built in the former private mansion built in 1878 by the Russian Princess, Template:Ill. Named for the artist Jules Chéret who lived and worked in Nice during his final years, the museum opened as the "Palais des Arts Jules Chéret" on 7 January 1928.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

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Template:Citation needed section The museum houses a collection of art spanning the past four centuries. There are paintings by Chéret and other artists who lived and worked on the French Riviera, such as Template:Interlanguage link multi, and his son Gustav-Adolf Mossa, who for many years were curators of the museum. The small museum has sculptures by Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux, François Rude, Michel de Tarnowsky and Auguste Rodin, plus ceramic pieces by Pablo Picasso. Some of the paintings are from:

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