Staircase on the Musée Fabre in Montpellier Agglomeration. The French city of Montpellier has a completely full of spectacular palaces of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, with beautiful gardens. One of these buildings houses the Musée Fabre, which was created in 1798 as a municipal museum. The name holds today it received in 1826, when he returned to his hometown of the painter JF Fabre. This artist, pupil of David, had been exiled in Rome during the Revolution and the restoration of the monarchy returned result. That same year 1826 he donated his wonderful collection of paintings, which greatly expanded the original museum funds. Further donations, such as Alfred Bruyas, enriched the museum to what today represents. The oldest paintings in the museum belong to Dutch and Flemish artists of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries as Teniers, Metsys, van Ostade, Jan Steen, and so on. There are also excellent examples of other countries such as Veronese and Zurbaran. The works of French painters were painted by Alfred Bruyas friends as Delacroix, Courbet and Corot. In modern times we have works by Bazille, who died very young, and Sisley.