Musee des Beaux-Arts de Caen

The Musee des Beaux-Arts de Caen is an expressive arts exhibition hall in the French city of Caen, established toward the beginning of the 19th century and revamped in 1971 inside the ducal chateau. The exhibition hall offers 64,583 square feet 6,000.0 m2 of space devoted to the open accumulations with numerous works of Italian and Flemish, just as French Renaissance, and of contemporary craftsmanship.

The prints from the Mancel accumulation are exhibited in a 400-m2 room. The exhibition hall is outfitted with a meeting room seating 230, utilized remarkably by the Universite populaire de Caen. The improvement work of the historical center advanced in all respects gradually. In 1806, the official Charles Ambroise de Caffarelli du Falga, refused the appointments casted a ballot by the region for resumption of the work that had been interfered. Just once the assets were discharged in the financial plan of 1809 could the undertaking can be finished.

In November 1809, the works of art that had been put away in the previous Jesuit church were exchanged and the exhibition hall was authoritatively opened on December 2, 1809. While different urban areas fabricated substantial historical centers to house their accumulations, the Caen gallery stayed confined in a wing of City Hall. The structure was in a problematic state and on November 3, 1905, some portion of the accumulations went up on fire. A few works from the Dutch and Flemish schools were lost just as The Battle of Hastings by Francois Debon.