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{{Infobox museum
| name            = Musée des Beaux-Arts de Nice
| image           = Villa Thomson 03.jpg
| map_type        = France Nice
| established     = 1928
| location        = [[Nice, France]]
| type            = [[Art museum]]
}}

The '''Musée des Beaux-Arts de Nice'''<ref>[http://www.musee-beaux-arts-nice.org/ 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 Empire|Russian ]] Princess, {{ill|Elizaveta Vasilievna Kochubey|ru|Кочубей,_Елизавета_Васильевна}}. 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>{{cite web|url=http://www.musee-beaux-arts-nice.org/
 |title=Du palais au musée|access-date=2014-02-09|publisher=Musée des Beaux-Arts de Nice}}</ref>

== Collection ==
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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 {{Interlanguage link multi|Alexis Mossa|fr}}, 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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*[[Marie Bashkirtseff]]
*[[Pierre Bonnard]]
*[[Jan Brueghel the Elder]]
*[[Bronzino]]
*[[Benjamin Jean Joseph Benjamin Constant|Benjamin Constant]]
*[[Kees van Dongen]]
*[[Raoul Dufy]]
*[[Jean-Honoré Fragonard]]
*[[Marie Laurencin]]
*[[Luc-Olivier Merson]]
*[[Édouard Vuillard]]

== Gallery ==
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==References==
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==External links==
{{Commons category|Musée des Beaux-Arts de Nice}}
*{{Official website|http://www.musee-beaux-arts-nice.org}}
*[http://www.MichelDeTarnowsky.org/ Michel de Tarnowsky website]

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[[Category:Art museums and galleries in France]]
[[Category:Museums in Nice]]
[[Category:Art museums and galleries established in 1928]]
[[Category:1928 establishments in France]]

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