Valenciennes, the city of 14 rivers

Name: Valenciennes, la ville aux 14 rivières
Start: 2022-09-17T11:00:00+02:00
End: 2022-09-17T12:00:00+02:00
Location: Musée des Beaux-Arts de Valenciennes

At the confluence of the Scheldt and the Rhônelle, Valenciennes is built on many buried or forgotten rivers. Discover them through the works of the Museum!

Samedi 17 septembre 2022, 11h00Passé

Ville de Valenciennes

At the confluence of the Scheldt and the Rhônelle, Valenciennes is built on many buried or forgotten rivers. Discover them through the works of the Museum!

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Musée des Beaux-Arts de Valenciennes

Boulevard Watteau - 59300 Valenciennes

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Hauts-de-France

The museum of Valenciennes belongs to this generation of palace of Fine Arts built under the IIIth Republic conceived(designed) with wide spaces and monumental proportions emphasising here wonderfully a prestigious collection, of Gallo-Roman archaeology until the XXth century, with as fortes the Flemish painting(paint) of the XVIIth century (Rubens, Van Dyck, Jordaens), the charm of the XVIIIth century around Antoine Watteau and the triumph of the sculpture of the XXth century with Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux and his(her) contemporaries such Lemaire and Hiolle