Musée Fesch

The musée Fesch (officially, Palais Fesch-musée des beaux-arts) is the central museum of fine arts in Ajaccio on Corsica.

[5] It was completed in 1837.The initiative to build the museum was taken by Napoleon I's maternal uncle, cardinal Joseph Fesch (1763-1839), archbishop of Lyons and the primate of the Gauls.

[citation needed] The museum was first designed in 1806 but construction started only in 1827 with the efforts of Mgr Péraldi, the cardinal's friend and agent.

Niveau 1 contains 16th and 17th century Italian paintings such as Botticelli's Virgin and Child, Titian's Man with a Glove, and Paolo Veronese's Leda and the Swan.

Niveau 2 features 17th- and 18th-century paintings, including Poussin's Midas à la source du fleuve Pactole and Recco's Ray on a Cauldron with Fish in a Basket while the Grand Gallery, also on this floor, hosts large canvases, such as Gregorio de Ferrari's Holy Family.

Jérôme Maglioli, Portrait of Cardinal Fesch , Musée Fesch.
Statue of Cardinal Joseph Fesch (Archbishop of Lyon 1802–39) in the forecourt of the museum
Giacomo Boni , The Triumph of David .
Poussin , Midas at the Source of the River Pactolus .