Musée des Beaux-arts – Hôtel Fayet

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Construit au XVIIe siècle et agrandi au XIXe, l’Hôtel Fayet est un joyau de Béziers. Ancienne demeure de la famille Fayet, il devient musée en 1966 et conserve des œuvres du XIXe siècle et le fonds d’atelier du sculpteur Jean-Antoine Injalbert.

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 hotel was first 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.

The studio collection of Béziers sculptor Jean-Antoine Injalbert is a major attraction. 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 modeler is on display in the permanent exhibition, which focuses on his preparatory work.

Spoken languages : French

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