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The Petit Palais is an art museum in Paris. Built for the 1900 Exposition Universelle ("universal exhibition"), it now houses the City of Paris Museum of Fine Arts (Musée des beaux-arts de la ville de Paris). Petit Palais is a small museum with a room for special expositions. We enjoyed just the main exhibit hall.
Bouquet of Tulips by Jeff Koons created between 2016 and 2019
La Danseuse Sacha-Lyo by Serge Youriévitch 1933
Bacchante by Auguste Clésinger 1848
Entrust by Inti 2024
The Musée Marmottan Monet is an art museum in Paris dedicated to artist Claude Monet. The collection features over three hundred Impressionist and post-Impressionist paintings by Monet. A number of Impressionist works by other painters are also displayed; the museum hosts the largest Berthe Morisot public collection in the world.
The museum finds its origin in the 1932 donation by art historian Paul Marmottan of his father's pavillon de chasse, that he transformed into an hôtel particulier and which now houses the museum, to the Académie des Beaux-Arts, along with a sizeable family collection from the Renaissance and the Napoleonic era. The museum opened in 1934; its fame is the result of a donation in 1966 by Michel Monet, Claude's second son and only heir.
Originally a hunting lodge for the Duke of Valmy, the building at the edge of the Bois de Boulogne was purchased in 1882 by Jules Marmottan, who later left it to his son, Paul Marmottan. The latter moved into the lodge and, with an interest in the Napoleonic era, he expanded his father's collection of paintings, furniture and bronzes. --Wikipedia
Basically, Musée Marmottan is a big house holding some of the most valuable paintings in the world. Most of the Monet paintings displayed were in the basement level, I assume for security reasons.
Portrait de Mademoiselle Victorine de Bellio by Auguste Renoir 1892
Portrait of Claude Monet (known as Claude Monet Reading) by Auguste Renoir 1873
Portrait de la Duchesse de Feltre et de ses Enfants by François-Xavier Fabre 1810
Portrait of Désirée Clary by François Pascal Simon, Baron Gérard 1810
Portrait de Louise Riesener by Berthe Morisot 1881
Paule Gobillard by Berthe Morisot 1887
Portrait de Poly by Claude Monet 1886
Nymphéas by Claude Monet 1916-1919
Water Lillies by Claude Monet 1919
The Train in the Snow. The Locomotive by Claude Monet 1875
Spring Through the Branches by Claude Monet 1878
Nymphéas by Claude Monet 1916-1919
That wraps up Paris. Up next, Prague.
