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Musee Marmottan Monet exhibits a large collection of Impressionist paintings including the world’s largest collection of Claude Monet masterpieces.
The museum is housed in a remodeled 1882 hunting lodge owned by Jules Marmottan who used the space to exhibit his art collection.
Jules Marmottan’s son Paul lived in the mansion after his father’s death and expanded the home to include even more artwork.
Paul Marmottan donated the entire art collection and two mansions to the French Academie des Beaux-Arts upon his death.
In 1957 the Marmottan Museum received a private collection from Victorine Donop de Monchy which included a vast selection of Impressionist painters such as Manet, Monet, Pissaro, Sisley and Renoir.
In 1966 Michel Monet donated his father’s house and gardens at Giverny to the French Academy of Fine Arts upon his death. He also donated 65 Claude Monet paintings to the Marmottan Museum.
The museum now owned the largest collection of Claude Monet paintings in the world and changed it’s name to the Musee Marmottan Monet .
In 1996 another donation was made by the Denis and Annie Rouart Foundation which included works by Berthe Morisot, Edouard Manet, Edgar Degas and Henri Rouart.
“The Académie des Beaux-Arts, as it has been known since 1803, was founded in 1648 as the Académie Royale de Peinture to champion French art. Responsible for teaching and for organizing the Salon, it was devoted to preserving the national artistic tradition. The Paul Marmottan bequest extended its mission by making it the guardian of a significant part of the French heritage.
The art of the second half of the 19th century entered the Musée Marmottan in 1938. The drawings donated by the son of William Adolphe Bouguereau, one of the most prominent academic painters of his day and a member of the Institut, and the studies bequeathed by the brother of naturalist painter Jules Bastien-Lepage (a former student of Alexandre Cabanel) were very much in line with the tradition embodied by the Académie des Beaux-Arts and championed by Marmottan. However, the donations made by Victorine and Eugène Donop de Monchy radically changed the situation. Victorine was born on April 15, 1863, the year the Duc de Valmy acquired the plot on which the townhouse was built at 20 Avenue Raphaël. With her husband, she was one of the first visitors to the Musée Marmottan. For its part, the Académie closed the Salon to these young painters after 1870, with the result that they decided to organize their own exhibitions. It was during the first of these, in 1874, that Impression, Sunrise inspired the critic Louis Leroy to come up with the caustic term impressionniste. With the entrance into the museum of those eleven Impressionist canvases in 1940, the Académie was at last recognizing the value of Impressionism. Moreover, in doing so it had become the owner and guardian of the work that gave the group its name. The arrival of canvases by Monet, Berthe Morisot, Pierre Auguste Renoir, Alfred Sisley, Camille Pissarro, and Armand Guillaumin was duly celebrated. They formed the cornerstone of the Musée Marmottan’s Impressionist collections.
Thanks to Michel Monet, the Impressionist collection would soon become one of the museum’s great riches. The younger son of Claude Monet, and the only son after the death of his brother Jean in 1914, he was his sole descendant, heir to the house in Giverny and all the works it contained, when the painter died in 1926. He thus received the paintings and drawings by masters and friends that his father had collected, including Eugène Delacroix, Eugène Boudin, Johan Barthold Jongkind, Gustave Caillebotte, Renoir, and Morisot. Above all, Michel inherited his father’s late works. Most of these were part of an ensemble of monumental canvases of water lilies. Between 1914 and 1926, Claude Monet painted 125 large panels, a selection of which he donated to his country, France.”
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12 ноя 2019
