The Musée Georges-Garret or Georges-Garret Museum is located in the city of

Vesoul Vesoul () is a commune in the Haute-Saône department in the region of Bourgogne-Franche-Comté located in eastern France. It is the most populated municipality of the department with inhabitants in 2014. The same year, the Communauté d'agglo ...

, in the

Haute-Saône Haute-Saône (; Arpitan: ''Hiôta-Sona''; English: Upper Saône) is a department in the Bourgogne-Franche-Comté region of northeastern France. Named after the river Saône, it had a population of 235,313 in 2019.France France (), officially the French Republic ( ), is a country primarily located in Western Europe. It also comprises of overseas regions and territories in the Americas and the Atlantic, Pacific and Indian Oceans. Its metropolitan area ...

. The museum was created in 1882, and since 1981 has been installed in a former 17th-century Ursuline convent, comprising 14 rooms (9 fine art rooms and 5 archeology rooms) spread over two levels. The first level of the museum presents a collection of

Gallo-Roman Gallo-Roman culture was a consequence of the Romanization of Gauls under the rule of the Roman Empire. It was characterized by the Gaulish adoption or adaptation of Roman culture, language, morals and way of life in a uniquely Gaulish context ...

funerary steles as well as objects taken from various excavations in

Haute-Saône Haute-Saône (; Arpitan: ''Hiôta-Sona''; English: Upper Saône) is a department in the Bourgogne-Franche-Comté region of northeastern France. Named after the river Saône, it had a population of 235,313 in 2019.Middle Ages In the history of Europe, the Middle Ages or medieval period lasted approximately from the late 5th to the late 15th centuries, similar to the post-classical period of global history. It began with the fall of the Western Roman Empire ...

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, and especially the 18th and 19th centuries. The most significant holdings of the museum are paintings and sculptures by

Jean-Léon Gérôme Jean-Léon Gérôme (11 May 1824 – 10 January 1904) was a French painter and sculptor in the style now known as academicism. His paintings were so widely reproduced that he was "arguably the world's most famous living artist by 1880." The ra ...

(1824–1904), who was born in Vesoul. Gérôme donated a number of his works to the museum during his lifetime, and his heirs donated more works after his death. These range from the very early ''Saint Vincent de Paul'' of 1847 to the very late self-portrait of the artist painting his statue ''The Ball Player'' of 1902. As result, the museum's Gérôme collection, displayed in several rooms, is without equal. Displayed along with Gérôme are by works of artists of

Haute-Saône Haute-Saône (; Arpitan: ''Hiôta-Sona''; English: Upper Saône) is a department in the Bourgogne-Franche-Comté region of northeastern France. Named after the river Saône, it had a population of 235,313 in 2019.École des Beaux-Arts École des Beaux-Arts (; ) refers to a number of influential art schools in France. The term is associated with the Beaux-Arts style in architecture and city planning that thrived in France and other countries during the late nineteenth centur ...

in Paris, beginning in 1864. These artists collectively became known as the École Haut-Saônoise, or School of Haute-Saône. They painted landscapes, scenes of country life, and portraits. Among the better known are

Gustave Courtois Gustave-Claude-Étienne Courtois, also known as Gustave Courtois (; 18 May 1852 in Pusey, Haute-Saône – 1923 in Neuilly-sur-Seine) was a French painter, a representative of the academic style of art. Life Courtois was born 18 May 1852 i ...

, Jules-Alexis Muenier and Pascal Dagnan-Bouveret.

Gallery (chronological)

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Saint Vincent de Paul Vincent de Paul, CM (24 April 1581 – 27 September 1660), commonly known as Saint Vincent de Paul, was a Occitan French Catholic priest who dedicated himself to serving the poor. In 1622 Vincent was appointed a chaplain to the galleys. After ...

'', 1847 File:Une ame emportée par un ange - Gerome.jpg, Jean-Léon Gérôme, ''A Soul Carried Away by an Angel'', 1853 File:Gérôme - Cave Canem.jpg, Jean-Léon Gérôme, ''Cave Canem'', 1881, File:Gérôme - La Vérité au fond d'un puits.jpg, Jean-Léon Gérôme, ''Truth at the Bottom of a Well'', study for a painting of 1895 File:Gérôme - L'entrée du Christ à Jérusalem - cadre.jpg, Jean-Léon Gérôme, ''Entry of the Christ at Jerusalem'', 1897 File:Gérôme La Douleur (face).jpg, Jean-Léon Gérôme, ''La Douleur'', 1891 File:Cormon - Le Sculpteur au travail.jpg,

Fernand Cormon Fernand Cormon (24 December 1845 – 20 March 1924) was a French painter born in Paris. He became a pupil of Alexandre Cabanel, Eugène Fromentin, and Jean-François Portaels, and one of the leading historical painters of modern France. Biogra ...

, ''The Sculptor at Work'', 1891 File:Léopold Bernstamm - J.L. Gérôme polychromant Tanagra.jpg, Léopold Bernhard Bernstamm, Gérome painting a hoop dancer, 1897 File:Self-portrait-painting-the-ball-player jean-leon-gerome.jpg, Jean-Léon Gérôme, self-portrait, painting ''The Ball Player'', 1902 File:Aimé Morot - Tête de Jean-Léon Gérôme.jpg, Aimé Morot, bronze head of Jean-Léon Gérôme, 1909

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