We visited le Musée Réattu. It’s in a building that used to house the Chevaliers de  l’Ordre de Malte, which was confiscated during the Revolution and purchased by the Arlésien artist, Jacques Réattu.

Our guide talked to us about the history of the warrior monks who lived here before the Revolution.

This is the view from Réattu’s workshop!

This unfinished painting reveals his planning techniques for large paintings. He drew the people nude, then added clothes with paint.

Réattu purchased this painting for himself, and there is some controversy over who the young man is.

There are examples of modern art in the museum, most of which have some link to Arles and to Southern France.

There are paintings lent to the museum by Pablo Picasso himself. This painting, on loan from somebody else, is a portrait of a friend of his dressed as an Arlesienne lady with a shawl and a complicated hairdo.

As with many buildings in town, there are mysterious passageways under the floor!