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Parc Monceau
⌂ 35 blvd de Cour celles
75017 § 01 42 27 39 56
q Monceau # 7am–8pm
daily (to 10pm in summer)
This lovely green haven dates
back to 1778, when the Duc de
Chartres commissioned the
painter and amateur landscape
designer Louis Carmontelle to
create a mag nificent garden.
The result was an land scape
enhanced by a range of archi-
tectural follies in the style of
English and German gardens.
In 1852 the garden became a
chic pub lic park, and a few of
the original features can still
be seen, such as the nau­
century home of the famous Some of the works on machia basin, an orna mental
art historian Paul Marmottan, display at the Musée version of a Roman pool, and
in 1932. He had bequeathed Marmottan Monet a pyramid. Today, the park
his graceful mansion, as well also has play grounds.
as his fine collection of
Renaissance, Consular and here, including Impression –
First Empire paintings and Sunrise (giving the genre its
pieces of furniture, to the name, “Impressionist”), a 12 " =
Institut de France. painting of Rouen Cathedral Musée Gustave
In 1966 the museum (p246) and the Water Lilies Moreau
acquired a fabulous collection series. Also here is the work ⌂ 14 rue de la
of work by the Impressionist painted at Giverny during the Rochefoucauld 75009
painter Claude Monet, which last years of Monet’s life, q Trinité-d’Estienne
was the bequest of his son, including The Japanese Bridge d’Orves # 10am–5:15pm
Michel. Some of Monet’s most and The Weeping Willow. The Wed–Mon ¢ 12:45–2pm
famous paintings can be seen iridescent colours and daring Mon, Wed & Thu ∑ musee-
brushstrokes make them moreau.fr
some of the museum’s most
powerful works. The Symbolist painter Gustave
Part of Monet’s personal art Moreau (1826–98), known for
collection was passed on to his symbolic works depicting
the museum as well, including biblical and mytho logical
work by fellow Impressionists scenes, lived and worked in
Camille Pissarro, Edgar Degas, this town house, now dis-
Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Paul playing a large number of his
Gauguin and Alfred Sisley, and paintings across three floors.
the museum does an excellent The collection includes Jupiter
job of explaining the relation- and Semele, one of the artist’s
ships between the artists. The most out standing works.
space also has displays of
medieval illuminated manu-
scripts and 16th-century
Burgundian tapestries. Piano Did You Know?
and chamber music concerts
are held here on occasion. Impressionist painters
Monet and Renoir were
great friends, and
often painted the same
Boulevard de Clichy after scene side-by-side.
dark, with the brightly
illuminated Moulin Rouge
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