Musée des Beaux-arts – Hôtel Fayet
BEZIERS , Hérault – Cultural heritage
About
Built in the 17th century and enlarged in the 19th, the Hôtel Fayet is one of Béziers’ finest architectural jewels. Attached to the Fayet family, including Gustave, a wealthy entrepreneur, collector and painter. The Hôtel Fayet was originally an elegant bourgeois home, with a large artist’s studio, before becoming a museum after the building was sold to the city in 1966.
A branch of the former Musée des Beaux-Arts, the Hôtel Fayet displays part of the extraordinary collection of 19th-century paintings, from Romanticism to the academic painters of the Third Republic, including Delacroix, Géricault and Cabanel.
A major attraction is the studio collection of Béziers sculptor Jean-Antoine Injalbert. A neo-baroque artist with Italian and French influences, he was one of the most sought-after sculptors of his time. His incomparable talent as a modeller can be seen in the permanent exhibition, which focuses on the presentation of his preparatory work.
Spoken languages : French
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