The Faure museum of Aix-les-Bains was founded in 1949 to highlight the bequest granted to the city by Dr Jean Faure (1862-1942), doctor of pharmacy. From 1904, associated with Dr Paul Dussuel, he had designed and had the famous Elixir Bonjean manufactured. The success of this product endowed him with a substantial fortune. Frequenting Parisian salons, Dr Faure then invested in art and built up a collection including medicine boxes, Netsuke, works with licentious illustrations and a very substantial set of impressionist paintings and sculptures.
The homogeneity of the acquired works, their quality, may lead one to think that the final project of Doctor Faure was to constitute a museum.
This was therefore founded after his death and housed in a Genoese-style house from the beginning of the 20th century, "Les Chimères".
The site was redeveloped to better showcase the collections in the 1980s.
The public can appreciate the second collection in France devoted to sculptures by Rodin, but also works by Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux (sculpture), paintings related to Impressionism (significant of its first fruits, its golden age, its heirs, from 1850 to 1920), signed Corot, Boudin, Sisley, Pissarro, Degas, Bonnard, Fujita, or even memories linked to Alphonse de Lamartine's stays at Aix-les-Bains.
In addition, four temporary exhibitions are scheduled during the year.
Open all year except Tuesday and May 1, December 25 and January 1.
Information on +33 4 79 61 06 57.
