The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts (MMFA) is the city’s largest museum and is amongst the most prominent in Canada.
The MMFA is spread across five pavilions and the full extent of the campus makes it amongst the largest art museums in North America. The permanent collection included approximately 44,000 works.
Highlights of the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts
- “October” by James Tissot
- “Temptation of Saint Hilarion” by Octave Tassaert
- “Canadian Fall” by Otto Reinhold Jacobi
- “Bonaparte Entering Cairo” by Jean-Leon Gerome
- Maitreya bodhisattva, Gandhara, Kushan period, 3rd century
- Mask, Japan, Edo period
Montreal Museum of Fine Arts
- Name: Montreal Museum of Fine Arts (MMFA)
- French: Musée des beaux-arts de Montréal (MBAM)
- Established: 1860
- Type: Art museum
- Location: 1380, rue Sherbrooke Ouest, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
A Virtual Tour of Museums in Canada
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- Canadian Proverbs, Quotes, and Sayings
French Artists you should Know
- Georges de La Tour (1593 – 1652)
- Nicolas Poussin (1594 – 1665)
- Élisabeth Sophie Chéron (1648 – 1711)
- François Boucher (1703 – 1770)
- Jean-Honoré Fragonard (1732 – 1806)
- Jacques-Louis David (1748 – 1825)
- Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres (1780 – 1867)
- Eugène Delacroix (1798 – 1863)
- Rosa Bonheur (1822 – 1899)
- Jean-Léon Gérôme (1824 – 1904)
- Camille Pissarro (1830 – 1903 )
- Édouard Manet (1832 – 1883)
- Edgar Degas (1834 – 1917)
- Paul Cézanne (1839 – 1906)
- Auguste Rodin (1840 – 1917)
- Claude Monet (1840 – 1926)
- Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1841 – 1919)
- Berthe Morisot (1841 – 1895)
- Henri Rousseau (1844 – 1910)
- Gustave Caillebotte (1848 – 1894)
- Paul Gauguin (1848 – 1903)
- Jean Béraud (1849 – 1935)
- Georges Seurat (1859 – 1891)
- Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (1864 – 1901)
- Pierre Bonnard (1867 – 1947)
- Artists and their Art
- Famous French Artist You Should Know
Montreal Museum of Fine Arts – Quebec, Canada
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Montreal Museum of Fine Arts
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“Patience is a tree whose root is bitter, but its fruit is very sweet.”
– Canadian Proverb
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