“Like other regional museums in (France), the Lyon Museum of Fine Art was founded immediately following the French Revolution. In accordance with the ideals being promoted at that time, the works of art confiscated during the Revolution were to be conserved and made accessible to as man as possible. They were also to bolster the Lyon silk industry by providing study models for the factories’ artisans and designers.

More than two hundred years later the collections’ encyclopaedic orientations has made the Lyon Museum of Fine Arts one of the foremost museums in France…..”

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