Musée des Beaux-Arts Jules Chéret

The Musee des Beaux-Arts Jules Cheret occupies a Neo-Renaissance villa built in 1878 by a Ukrainian prince for the Russian aristocrat Elisabeth Kotchoubey on what is now Avenue des Baumettes in Nice. The city has used the building as its fine arts museum since 1928. It is named after the poster artist Jules Cheret, a pioneer of French Belle Epoque graphic design, who spent his last years in Nice and bequeathed a large part of his pastels and posters to the city. The collection also includes works by Raoul Dufy, Pierre Bonnard, Kees van Dongen, Carpeaux and Marie Bashkirtseff, alongside seventeenth-century Italian paintings. The villa itself, with its double marble staircase, is a listed historic monument.