Musée Marmottan Monet

This magnificent 19th-century home with its perfectly preserved Empire-style decor was once owned by the art historian and collector Paul Marmottan. Upon his death in 1932, he bequeathed the mansion and its contents to the Académie des beaux-arts, creating the foundation for the Musée Marmottan Monet. In 1966, Claude Monet’s son Michel Monet donated a large collection of his father’s works to the museum, making it the largest repository of Monet’s art in the world. This outstanding impressionist treasure is further enriched by works by Delacroix, Boudin, Manet, Degas, Morisot, Caillebotte, Sisley, Pissarro, Gauguin and Rodin, with Chagall representing the modernist period. The museum also has a collection of exquisite illuminated manuscripts dating from the Middle Ages and the Renaissance.