Collection Highlight: Musée Marmottan Monet

Monet and More

Musée Marmottan Monet in Paris is famed for holding the most important collection of paintings by Claude Monet (1840-1926),and many other works by the Impressionists and Post-Impressionists. Less well known are decorative objects from the Empire period as well as the Wildenstein settlement, comprising a collection of miniatures from the 13th to the 16th centuries.

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Key artists and works

The Monet collection, which can be found at the lower level of the museum, comprises the major holding of the Marmottan Museum. Its large open rooms, inspired by the ‘Waterlilies’ rooms in the Musée de l'Orangerie, allow visitors to see a progression of Monet's works, both up close and from afar.

Some of the most notable pieces by Monet in the museum are his ‘Impression: Sunrise, 1872’, famous for inspiring the name ‘Impressionism’, ‘Waterlilies, 1916-19’ and ‘The Agapanthus, 1914-17’.

The museum’s collection also holds works by other notable Impressionist artists such as Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Camille Pissarro, Paul Gauguin and Alfred Sisley.

Origins of the Collection

Former hunting lodge for the Duke of Valmy, the Musée Marmottan Monet was bought in 1882 by Jules Marmottan. His son, Paul, expanded his father’s collection of art pieces and First Empire paintings. Upon his death, he bequeathed his home and collection to the French Academy of Fine Arts, which opened up the Museum Marmottan in 1934.

In 1957, Musée Marmottan Monet received the private collection of Madame Victorine Donop de Monchy as a donation inherited from her father, Doctor Georges de Bellio, physician to the Impressionist artists Manet, Monet, Pissaro, Sisley and Renoir, and an early supporter of the Impressionist movement.

Nine years later, Claude Monet's son, Michel Monet, left the museum his own collection of his father's works, thus creating the world's largest collection of Monet paintings.

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