Musée des Beaux-Arts de Strasbourg

The museum owned 1,934 works as of 31 December 2015, this number has substantially increased since (see below). The old masters from the upper-Rhenish area until 1681 are exhibited in the neighboring Musée de l’Œuvre Notre-Dame.

The first municipal art collection of the city of Strasbourg was the result of the French Revolution, and was a consequence of the expropriation of churches and cloisters. Through the years, the collection, which was founded in 1801, grew by private donations, as well as government loans from the inventory of the Louvre. On August 24, 1870, the museum, which was housed in the Aubette on Place Kléber, was set on fire by Prussian artillery fire and completely destroyed. After the end of the Franco-Prussian War, it was resolved to re-establish the museum, and the imperial art historian Wilhelm von Bode was commissioned with the task in 1889. In 1890, the museum was launched and was re-stocked since that time by acquisitions and gifts. In 1931 under the leadership of Hans Haug (1890–1965), the collection of medieval art and upper-Rhenish painting (Konrad Witz, Hans Baldung, Sebastian Stoskopff) was transferred to the newly founded Musée de l’Œuvre Notre-Dame. The collection of modern art went to the Musée d’Art Moderne et Contemporain de Strasbourg (Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art of Strasbourg). Haug's superior during the German occupation from 1940 to 1944 was Kurt Martin. On August 13, 1947, fire destroyed part of the re-established collection, including works by Francesco Guardi, Thomas de Keyser, Antonio del Pollaiuolo and Lucas Cranach the Elder. However, with the money from the insurance, it was possible to acquire other artistically valuable paintings. Apart from regular purchases on the art market, the collection of the museum is also regularly being expanded by substantial donations, notably in 1987 and 1994 by collectors Othon Kaufman and François Schlageter (Italian paintings), in 2004 by collectors Roger and Elisabeth Eisenbeth (Dutch paintings), in 2009 by the collector Ann L. Oppenheimer (Italian, Flemish and Dutch paintings), and in 2019 by the collectors Jeannine Poitrey and Marie-Claire Ballabio (mostly Italian and Dutch paintings). In 2005 the museum reached a settlement with the heirs of Bernhard Altmann over a Canaletto that had been looted by the Nazis from its Jewish owner.

Giotto di Bondone Sano di Pietro Sandro Botticelli Cima da Conegliano Carlo Crivelli Filippino Lippi Piero di Cosimo Cima da Conegliano Raphael Correggio Veronese Tintoretto Guercino Canaletto Giambattista Tiepolo Salvator Rosa Alessandro Magnasco Giuseppe Maria Crespi

Simon Marmion Hans Memling Lucas van Leyden Gerard David Maarten van Heemskerck Peter Paul Rubens Jacob Jordaens Salomon van Ruysdael Pieter de Hooch Anthony van Dyck Willem Kalf Pieter Claesz Christiaen van Couwenbergh Cornelis Engelsz

Jusepe de Ribera Francisco de Zurbarán Francisco de Goya

El Greco

Philippe de Champaigne Claude Lorrain Nicolas de Largillière François Boucher Simon Vouet Antoine Watteau Jean Siméon Chardin Philip James de Loutherbourg Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot Théodore Chassériau Gustave Courbet Théodore Rousseau Edgar Degas Charles-Eduard Chaise

Baccio Bandinelli Alessandro Algardi Alessandro Vittoria François Girardon Jean-Antoine Houdon Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux Antoine-Louis Barye Théodore-Charles Gruyère François Joseph Bosio Adolf von Hildebrand