The museum’s oldest collection consists of works seized in 1794 in the houses of emigrants, churches and convents, especially the large abbeys of Marmoutier, Bourgueil and La Riche, as well as paintings and exceptional furniture from the castle of Chanteloup, Richelieu. Among the most famous are Blanchard, Boucher, Boulogne, Houël, La Fosse, Lamy, Le Sueur, Parrocel, Restout. From 1801 the museum benefited from the sending, by the Central Museum, future Louvre, of thirty paintings including a series of pieces of reception of the Royal Academy of Painting (Nattier, Restout, Houasse, Dumont the Roman) thus composing one of the highlights of the Tours collection. It is at this time that the museum receives the Ex-voto of Rubens and the masterpieces of the Italian Renaissance that are the two panels of Andrea Mantegna, Christ in the Garden of Olives and The Resurrection, panels of the predella of the retableau of San Zeno of Verona. During the nineteenth century, the city of Tours acquired two important lots of paintings where the eighteenth century French and Italian is well represented. State deposits, bequests and donations enriched the museum throughout the 19th and 20th centuries with works by Lorenzo Veneziano, Rembrandt, Champaigne, Corneille, Coypel, Ingres, Largillière, Lemoyne, Perronneau, Hubert Robert, Van Loo, Vernet, etc. Thus the collection of French painting of the eighteenth century is one of the largest in France and the richest collection of Italian painting of the Central Region. In 1963 the museum received the Octave Linet bequest, plus recent acquisitions, thus constituting an exceptional collection of Italian Primitives, the richest in France after the Louvre Museum. (Lorenzo Veneziano, Naddo Ceccarelli, Niccolo di Tommaso, Lippo Vanni, Lippo d'Andrea, Cecco di Pietro, Giovanni di Paolo, Antonio Vivarini, etc.) The nineteenth century is represented by the neoclassical school (Suvée, Taillasson), romanticism (Vinchon), orientalism (Belly, Chassériau, Delacroix), realism (Bastien-Lepage, Cazin, Gervex) up to impressionism (Monet, Degas) and in sculpture with Barye, Bourdelle, David d'Angers, Rodin… The collection of works of the 20th century includes the names of Geneviève Asse, Briggs, Calder, Davidson, Debré, Maurice Denis, Gaumont, Peinado, Seguin, Zao Wou-ki. Rich in its historical, architectural and exceptional collection, the Museum of Fine Arts of Tours is one of the most important in France. Open on a French garden and under the shade of a cedar classified Remarkable tree