Musée Marmottan Monet
A townhouse museum with the world’s largest collection of Claude Monet’s paintings.
The Musée Marmottan Monet is set in a 19th-century townhouse at the edge of the Ranelagh gardens in western Paris. It began as a hunting lodge that Jules Marmottan bought in 1882. His son Paul enlarged it and filled it with First Empire art and furniture, then left the house and his collections to the Académie des Beaux-Arts, which opened it as a museum in 1934.
Gifts later turned it into a key place for Impressionism. In 1966 Claude Monet's son Michel left his father's paintings to the museum, making this the world's largest Monet collection, including Impression, Sunrise, the painting that gave the movement its name. The museum also holds a major group of works by Berthe Morisot and a collection of medieval illuminated manuscripts.
Highlights
- Monet's Impression, Sunrise (1872)
- The world's largest collection of works by Claude Monet
- A major collection of Berthe Morisot's work
- First Empire furniture and illuminated manuscripts
