Museum of Fine Arts, Dole-The Daily Ledger

The museum of fine arts and archeology of Dole was founded in 1821. Since 1980, the museum is installed in the House of the Officers, an example of military architecture of Franche-Comté at the 18th century.

Collections

The collections comprise three sections: archeology, ancient art and contemporary art.

Museum of Fine Arts, Dole

Archeology: It is a matter of the archeological discoveries in the area of Jura, from the Neolithic to the Merovingian era.

Museum of Fine Arts, Dole

Ancient art: Burgundian and of Franche-Comté sculptures from the Middle Age to the 18th century (G. Lullier, F.-M. Rosset, C.-F. Attiret), French paintings 17th century and 18th century (S. Vouet, E. Allegrain, Ch.-A. Coypel), Italian Old Master Giambattista Pittoni, Italian ones (F. Albani, L. Giordano, G. Assereto) and Nordic ones (Maître de Saint-Gilles, P. van Boucle, C. Gysbrechts). Paintings from the 19th century (J. B. Jongkind, G. Courbet), in particular from local artistes (J.-D. Attiret, A. Pointelin, J. Machard, G. Brun). The History of Franche-Comté is represented by conquest scenes painted by van der Meulen, Martin des Batailles and Martin des Gobelins.

Museum of Fine Arts, Dole

Contemporary art: Paintings of artists who worked in France since the 60’ having for theme art and corporation: the Narrative Figuration (Fromanger, Rancillac, Monory, Erró) and the New Realism (Arman, Villeglé, Deschamps). Temporary expositions: 1985: Claude-Max Lochu, Erró 1987: Yayoi Kusama 1991: Charlemagne Palestine 1994: Peter Stampfli 1997: Yan Pei-Ming 1999: Jacques Monory 2000: Peter Saul 2003: Bernard Rancillac 2004: Gérard Deschamps 2005: Gérard Fromanger 2006: Helen Frik: The Frik Collection 2006: La Figuration Narrative 2007: La sculpture du XVe siècle en Franche-Comté 2008: Swetlana Heger 2009: Jean-Olivier Hucleux 2010: Erró. 50 ans de collages 2011: Ida Tursic et Wilfried Mille 2012: Laurent Pécheux 2013: Philippe Cognée 2013: Gérard Schlosser