[1] Chernihiv Regional Art Museum, located in Dytynets Park, on the territory of the ancient princely city in the architectural monument of the 19th century, even outwardly corresponds to the idea of the museum as a place that bears the imprint of time, a reflection of the history and culture of our people.
[2] You will be inspired by masterpieces of Western European and Ukrainian art, a unique collection of the Galagan Cossack family from the museum collection, which includes more than 16,000 works of fine and decorative arts from the 16th century to the present, including the iconographic heritage of the Ukrainian Baroque.
It also holds a small collection of Italian, Dutch, Flemish and German works, including The Concert by Hendrick ter Brugghen and a painting by Philipp Hieronymus Brinckmann.
French artists of the 18th and 19th centuries include Hubert Robert (Ruines d'un vieux château), François Marius Granet (Chœur des Capucins de la place Barberini à Rome), Ernest Meissonnier (Amoureux des tableaux), Jean-Baptiste Greuze (Portrait d'une jeune fille en coiffe blanche) as well as sculptures like Félix Lecomte (Marie-Antoinette), Gustave Doré (Vierge à l'Enfant), François Pompon (Cosette) and works by Pierre-Jules Mêne.
Ukrainian and Russian artists include Apollon Mokritsky (Portrait of Eugene Grebenka), Alexey Voloskov (Gothic bridge in Sokirin park), Nikolai Ge (Portrait of a girl with a red sash), Lev Lagorio (Ruins of Razumovski Palace (Baturyn), Razumovskiy palace in Baturyn), Mikhail Clodt von Jürgensburg (Autumn Plowing in Ukraine), Mark Antokolsky (Méphistophélès), Fyodor Buchholz (Biting into it), Sergueï Svetoslavski (A fisherman's net), Nikolay Samokish (The Red army crossing the Syvash).