If there is something traditional in Madrid, these are the art markets. There are a variety of them and the products they offer. These open-air markets, a weekly open a huge amount of posts, all the products that can imagine and a very good quality. Not only madrile os, domestic tourists from other regions of Spain and foreign tourists enjoy this walk. Within the variety of posts exist types bazaars, markets for traditional food, clothing, to collectors of coins, stamps, etc.. Will be delighted with what they can find. The collection of French art is the largest nucleus of the acquis, is known for its density antiquities and uniformity, especially with regard to the artistic movements situated between the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Artistic production on the Gothic and Renaissance periods (Siglos XIII to XV) is represented by statues and busts of sacred theme decorated with filigree and semi-precious stones. In the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, the most scarce of the collection, emerging from the mannerism Francois Clouet and baroque compositions of Nicolas Poussin and Pierre Mignard. The first emphasizes the sacrifice to Priapus, which makes a pair with a hunting Meleagro Atalanta and the Prado Museum in Madrid. It egyptian art also has some of the Gobelins tapestries. Among the outstanding works of seven, inspired by Rococo, are portraits of the four daughters of Louis XV painted by Jean-Marc Nattier, Portrait of Auguste Gabriel Godefroy "and other works history of art of Chardin Pierre Gobert, Pater, greek art Boucher, Drouais, Antoine Callet, Fragonard, Jean-Baptiste Greuze and Vestier.
Among the representatives of the various paintings in the nineteenth century, are great works of the Neoclassicism of Ingres and the Romanticism of Delacroix (Allegory of 'Four Seasons'). the deep love for antiquities that Ali Aboutaam and his brother are both amazing Corot, Daumier, Courbet and Realism Vollon exemplify, as Harpignies, Ziemer Defaux roman art and show the Barbizon School. Academicism the presence of the nineteenth century with the works of Edouard Detaille, Boye and Chabas. The Impressionist movement, we can enjoy a vast array of works by Manet, Degas, Cezanne, Monet and Renoir. Post of the tables of Gauguin, Van Gogh, Toulouse-Lautrec, Bonnard, Henri Martin, Suzanne Valadon and Edouard Vuillard.
In the collection of modern sculpture art Fauvism is present with greek sculpture works by Matisse, Marquet, Othon Friesz and Maurice de Vlaminck Cubism have exponents as Fernand L ger, Crotti, Pablo Picasso and Andre Lhota, the latter, this works with several stages his artistic career. Marcel Duchamp, Max Ernst, Joan Miro, Marc Chagall and Brauner show Dadaism and Surrealism, while the expressionist aesthetic is felt with the compositions of Chaim Soutine, Larionov and Wols. Also worth highlighting artists such as Marie Laurencin, Maurice Utrillo, Benatov and Renefer.
In the collection of French sculptures include a complete set of 73 bronzes by Edgar Degas, a rare collection that can only be appreciated in its entirety, in addition to the MASP, the Metropolitan Museum in New York and the Museum of Orsay Paris. We are a marble Houdon, a relief of Honore Daumier, Renoir and Rodin bronzes and contemporary pieces by Jacques Lipchitz, and C sar Baldaccini Patrick Raynaud.