Musée des Beaux-Arts de Troyes
Illustration — An exhibition room at the Musée des beaux-arts de Troyes The Musée des beaux-arts de Troyes (officially known as the musée Saint-Loup) is one of the two main art and archaeology museums in Troyes, France – the other is the Musée d'art moderne de Troyes. From 1831, it has been housed in the former Abbey of Saint Loup. It displays paintings of the fourteenth to nineteenth centuries (with strength in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries), a strong representation of local medieval sculpture as well as busts of Louis XIV and Marie-Thérèse by the locally born sculptor François Girardon, and furniture and decorative arts, together with some locally recovered Roman antiquities, most notably the Treasure of Pouan, the grave goods of a fifth-century Germanic warrior, and the Apollo of Vaupoisson, a fine Gallo-Roman bronze.
Also recorded as Musee des Beaux-Arts de Troyes · musée Saint-Loup · Musée de Troyes
Musée des Beaux-Arts de Troyes
Olybrius · Self-photographed · CC BY-SA 3.0
- Founded
- 1792
- Headquarters
- France
VALÉORINE Encyclopedia
VALÉORINE documentary reading
Documentary summary
Illustration — An exhibition room at the Musée des beaux-arts de Troyes The Musée des beaux-arts de Troyes (officially known as the musée Saint-Loup) is one of the two main art and archaeology museums in Troyes, France – the other is the Musée d'art moderne de Troyes. From 1831, it has been housed in the former Abbey of Saint Loup. It displays paintings of the fourteenth to nineteenth centuries (with strength in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries), a strong representation of local medieval sculpture as well as busts of Louis XIV and Marie-Thérèse by the locally born sculptor François Girardon, and furniture and decorative arts, together with some locally recovered Roman antiquities, most notably the Treasure of Pouan, the grave goods of a fifth-century Germanic warrior, and the Apollo of Vaupoisson, a fine Gallo-Roman bronze.
Admitted source layer · organised and presented by VALÉORINE
Note VALÉORINE
No house-authored Note is published until its assertions and sources pass the VALÉORINE evidence contract. The documentary article remains available in full while that enrichment is being consolidated.
Documentary enrichment in progress · no unsupported statement published
Reference Check
Propose documentary evidence for Musée des Beaux-Arts de Troyes. A contribution is never written directly as fact: identity, source, rights and evidence gates still decide.
Sign in to contribute
World of VALÉORINE
Documentary connections
Only confirmed graph relationships appear here. Images are shown only when their identity and reuse rights both pass the documentary gate.
Documentary evidence
Evidence Panel
not yet certified
- Identity
- resolved
- Independent source families
- 0
- Admitted assertions
- 0
- Open conflicts
- 0
Authority files
wikidata · Q3330226 · wikipedia · Musée des beaux-arts de Troyes
In this article
History
History
• Illustration — Odalisque by Sophie Gabriac (1843) In 1792, the Departmental Assembly wanted to found a museum and asked the Convention for authorization to use the former abbey of Notre-Dame-Aux-Nonnains, commissioners were sent to the department to collect objects there to put in this museum. During this time the architect Milony gathered statues on the ground floor of the Saint-Loup abbey which came from suppressed churches and convents. In 1829, the Academic Society of Aube renewed the project which had not succeeded, the city conceded the buildings of the Saint-Loup abbey which led to the opening of a first room in 1831. Seven paintings, ten statues and a mineralogical collection. In 1833, Dominique Morlot's donation added 46 paintings, enamels, models and plans to this background. To these were added the revolutionary seizures kept at the Hôtel du Département. In 1850, there were 130 paintings. To enlarge the museum, the Simart pavilion was erected in 1860, the Buissonnet pavilion in 1891 to enlarge the library, then the Audiffred pavilion in 1892.
Institutional history
Dated record
Institutional history
The full dated record · 2 entries
1792
Musée des Beaux-Arts de Troyes established.
1792
Musée des Beaux-Arts de Troyes is recorded from 1792.
Places
Named by the record
Places
Only places the record itself states, plotted where the house gazetteer settles their coordinates. Nothing is inferred from a name or a nationality.
- France
Notes from the source article
Cited by Wikipedia
Notes from the source article
These works are cited by the source article, in its own numbering. They are recorded as its citations, not as sources VALÉORINE has verified.
References
Citations
References
Each reference names the institution holding it, so a reader may go to the document itself.
reference work
Partially resolvedreference work
Partially resolved
The Encyclopedia exists whether or not anything is for sale. Corrections are recorded rather than overwritten, and every version of this record is kept. Published 16 August 2026.
Elsewhere in Institutions
3,152 published records in this field, each with its sources named.
- Musée des Beaux-Arts de RouenOrganisation
- Musée des Beaux-Arts de StrasbourgOrganisation
- Musée des Beaux-Arts de TournaiOrganisation
- Musée des Beaux-Arts de ToursOrganisation
- Musée des Beaux-Arts de ValenciennesOrganisation
- Musée des Beaux-Arts et d'Archéologie de BesançonOrganisation
- Musée des Beaux-Arts et d'Archéologie de Châlons-en-ChampagneOrganisation
- Musée des Beaux-Arts Jules ChéretOrganisation
Best supported in this field
For owners
Own an object connected with Musée des Beaux-Arts de Troyes?
A specialist will read what you send and tell you what the house can establish, what it cannot, and whether the object is suited to sale. There is no charge and no obligation. The object stays with you throughout; nothing is shipped to us unless it is arranged in writing beforehand.