Aix's other central museums are in the Quartier Mazarin , south of cours Mirabeau. On place St-Jean-de-Malte the most substantial of the lot, the Musée Granet (daily except Tues 10am-noon & 2-6pm; €1.53), covers art and archeology. It exhibits the finds from the Oppidum d'Entremont , a Celtic-Ligurian township 3km north of Aix, which flourished for about a hundred years, along with the remains of the Romans who routed them in 124 BC and established their city of Aquae Sextiae, the future Aix.
he museum's paintings are a mixed bag: Italian, Dutch, French, mostly seventeenth- to nineteenth-century, not very well hung or lit. The portraits of Diane de Poiters by Jean Capassin and Marie Mancini by Nicolas Mignard are an interesting contrast, and there is also a self-portrait by Rembrandt. The rows upon rows of eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century French paintings, including Ingres' revolting Jupiter and Thetis , are mostly abysmal, though Ingres' portrait of Granet is certainly worth a look. You finally reach one wall dedicated to the most famous Aixois painter, Paul Cézanne , who studied on the ground floor of the building, at that date the art school. Two of his student drawings are here as well as a handful of minor canvases such as Bathsheba, The Bathers and Portrait of Madame .
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