Musee Magnin, Dijon

Musee Magnin, Dijon

Musee Magnin is a national museum which holds a collection of over 2000 art pieces bequeathed to the state in 1938 by advisor to the Court of Accounts and avid art collector Maurice Magnin and his sister Jeanne who was an artist and art critic.

Musee Magnin is a national museum which holds a collection of over 2000 art pieces bequeathed to the state in 1938 by advisor to the Court of Accounts and avid art collector Maurice Magnin and his sister Jeanne who was an artist and art critic. It is housed in the 17th century classical mansion of Hotel Lantin. Paintings, sculptures, drawings, graphics, and print are arranged throughout the mansion which has been preserved as an amateur's cabinet and private dwelling.

The collection of paintings is arranged by school. The first section is dedicated to the Northern Schools, with works by Pieter Brueghel the Younger (The Winter Pleasures), Jan van Bijlert (The Banquet of Gods), Paul Bril and Tobias Verhaecht Roelant Savery, Bartholomeus van der Helst (La femme au Livre), and Gerard de Lairesse (Venus giving Aeneas his Arms).

The museum has a collection of 170 Italian paintings from the High Renaissance to the 18th century, with an emphasis on Venetian Schools of the 16th and 18th century, and Lombardo and Neapolitan Schools. It includes Giovanni Cariani's 'Christ and the Adultress', Giovanni Battista Crespi's 'The Visitation', Alessandro Allori's 'Susanna and the Elders', Carlo Dolci's 'Saint Charles Borromeo'.

Musee Magnin has 650 pieces from the French School of the 16th to the 19th centuries, with important 17th century works by Eustache Le Sueur (Dream of Poliphile with Nymphs), Laurent de La Hyre (The Two Putti Musicians), Sébastien Bourdon (Holy Family), Claude Vignon, and Jean Baptiste de Champaigne (The Sermon on the Mountain).

Admission is €3.50 (€2.50 excluding exhibitions) for adults, and free for EU residents under 26 years, disabled visitors, and for all visitors on the first Sunday of each month. Individual guided tours are €4.50 for 1 hour, €6.50 for 1.5 hours, and €8.50 for 2 hours. Discounts are available for large groups of over 10 people.