Musée de Picardie, Amiens

Works by Constance Charpentier, Gustave Courbet, and Pierre Puvis de Chavannes amongst others are at the Musee de Picardie in Amiens, France. Partially closed since 2008, and wholly from 2017 to 2020, the renovated museum has now been open for two years, with its collection reinstalled under the direction of Laure Dalon. The stunning result makes obligatory the short trip from Paris to Amiens, at least for true dix-neuvièmistes. The museum possesses excellent collections in several areas, but a variety of circumstances contributed to its special strength in nineteenth-century French art.