Musée des Beaux-Arts Jules Chéret, Art museum in Nice, France

The Musée des Beaux-Arts Jules Chéret occupies a former private mansion begun in 1878 for Princess Elizaveta Vasilievna Kochubey and finished under the Italian architect Constantin Scala. Its pale yellow facade has orange-painted rustication, a stone balustrade inscribed "MUSEE DES BEAUX-ARTS JULES CHERET", two rows of tall windows, and a projecting six-column balcony above three arched doorways. The collection spans four centuries.

Princess Elizaveta Vasilievna Kochubey bought the land and had a Neo-Renaissance mansion begun on 30 May 1878; it was still unfinished in 1881 and she sold it during construction. The American industrialist James Thompson bought it on 18 April 1883 and paid for finishing work led by the Italian architect Constantin Scala. Thompson died in the house on 11 December 1897; the city of Nice bought it in 1925 and opened the museum in 1928. The facades in Genoese Mannerist style and the roof were listed as a historical monument on 17 December 1976.

The museum is named after Jules Chéret, the poster artist who spent his last years in Nice and died there in 1932. Posters by Chéret line the staircase to the upper floor and are rotated every three months. A separate room holds 28 oil paintings, 97 drawings and prints, ceramics and fabrics given to the city by Eugénie Brisson, Raoul Dufy's Nice-born wife.

The collection occupies two floors of the palace: 17th- and 18th-century works in two ground-floor rooms, 19th-century salon painting in the large gallery, and 19th- to early 20th-century art upstairs. The Rodin bronze The Age of Bronze (1877) stands in the winter garden at the exit of the grand gallery. Chéret posters line the staircase and are rotated every three months.

The mansion was bought unfinished in 1883 by the American industrialist James Thompson, who spent his own money to finish it to his taste and died there on 11 December 1897. Its Genoese Mannerist facades and roof were classified as a historical monument on 17 December 1976.