Musée des Beaux-Arts de Caen

Musée des Beaux-Arts de Caen : The Michelin guide review

This fine art museum offers a chronological, thematic and geographical journey through painting from the 15 to 20C. It boasts noteworthy pieces from 17C Europe and a gallery dedicate to 18C portrait and landscape artists. Romantic masters (Delacroix), Realists (Courbet), Impressionists (Monet), Post-Impressionists (Bonnard) and Cubists are brought together in the rooms dedicated to the 19C and early 20C. The contemporary collection and a cabinet of prints from the Fond Mancel round up this picturesque journey.