The Musée Marmottan Monet is famous for housing the world's largest collection of Claude Monet paintings.
The museum is housed in the mansion that belonged to art historian Paul Marmottan. Marmotten was a collector of paintings, furnishings, bronzes and other artifacts from the First Napoleon Empire era. Upon his death in 1932, he donated his home and art collection to Académie des Beaux-Arts, who opened his mansion as the Musée Marmottan in 1934.
The museum became famous following the death of Monet's son Michel in a fatal car accident in 1966. Michel, the only child of Claude Monet, left his father's collection of paintings to the Musée Marmottan, transforming the museum into a mecca for impressionist art.
Together with the Le Havre caricatures of around 1858 and continuing through to the water lilies, irises, Japanese bridges and rose arbours inspired by his garden at Giverny, the museum presents a unique opportunity to see major works from the various stages of the master's career and thus follow the development of his technique.
Other impressionists whose work is displayed at the museum includes Degas, Manet, Pissarro, Renoir, Rodin and Sisley.
The Museum also contains a collection of medieval book illuminations from the 13th to 16th centuries donated by Daniel Waldenstein.
Prices
Admission: 9 Euro
Opening Times
Tues - Sun: 11am - 6pm (Tues to 9pm)
Closed Monday
1 Jan, 1 May and 25 Dec
Address
Musée Marmottan Monet
2, rue Louis-Boilly
75016 Paris
Tel: 01 44 96 50 33
How to Get There
Métro: La Muette - line 9
External Links
Musée Marmottan Monet Official Web Site
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