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The collection of the Musée National Magnin was formed by Maurice Magnin (1861–1939), a public auditor at the French audit office, between 1881 and 1935. Assisted by his sister Jeanne (1855–1937), Magnin brought together more than 1,200 paintings and 600 drawings including a group of Flemish and Dutch works. Worth mentioning are canvases of exceptional quality such as Bartholomeus van der Helst’s Portrait of a Woman with a Book (1665), Pieter Lastman’s Saint Luke, belonging to the artist’s series of the four Evangelists (1613), the Portrait of a Young Girl as Diana (c. 1650–1660) by Abraham van den Tempel, and The Feast of the Gods (c. 1635–1640) by Jan van Bijlert of Utrecht.
The museum also holds a number of interesting drawings including a Family Portrait by Jan Erasmus Quellinus (1694) and La Place des Thermes à Rome by Joseph Denis Odevaere (1808) as well as various anonymous sheets for which attributions are being researched.
Sophie Harent, Chief Curator (April 2025)
Collection catalogues
Peintures hollandaises du Musée des Beaux-Arts de Dijon et du Musée Magnin
Vergnet-Ruiz, Jean, Monique Geiger
Dijon 1968