Palais des Beaux Arts, Lille, Nord-Pas-de-Calais, France
The Palais des Beaux-Arts in Lille, which is in a building dating back to the 19th Century, was restored between 1991 and 1997, and now offers a setting worthy of its art collections.
The works are displayed over an area of 236,806 sq ft according to the different schools of art they belong to: Flemish, Dutch, Spanish, Italian and French.
Two of the collections in this pictoral panorama ranging from the 16th to the 20th Century are particularly distinguished: the Flemish collection, which includes a number of works by Rubens, and the 19th Century French collection displaying the work of David, Delacroix, Géricault, Corot et Courbet.
The museum’s 2,000 canvases are internationally renowned and serve as a point of reference for many specialists and art historians. One reason they visit is to study the 4,000 sheets in the ‘Cabinet of drawings’, which includes 30 drawings signed by Raphael, and 200 to 300 16th Century Italian drawings.
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