The Musée d'Arts de Nantes is one of the largest and oldest museums in Nantes. Founded in 1801 by the Consulate under the name of "Museum of Fine Arts" and definitively opened to the public in 1830, the museum includes a vast collection of paintings and sculptures ranging from the works of Italian primitives to those of contemporary artists. The museum is housed in a historic building from the end of the 19th century and its collection mainly concerns works of European paintings, covering a vast span of time: from the Middle Ages to the contemporary period. Among the artists on display, names such as Cosmè Tura, Perugino, Tintoretto, Annibale Carracci for Italian Renaissance art emerge, while for the seventeenth century we find several famous works by Georges de La Tour, as well as by Guido Reni, Orazio Gentileschi, Rubens , Luca Giordano, imon Vouet and Philippe de Champaigne. For the eighteenth century we find works by French artists, such as Watteau and Greuze, but also Italians, such as Pannini and Canova. And again: among the artists of the nineteenth century the names of Ingres, Delacroix, Corot, Rousseau, Courbet, with the grain screeners, Sisley, Renoir, Sérusier emerge. Finally, the itinerary ends with the period of the twentieth century, in which we find paintings by Léger, as many as eleven works by Kandinsky, Max Ernst and Picasso.