Musée Marmottan Monet is the former residence of François Christophe Edmond Kellerman, Duke of Valmy is Passy, the former Hamlet absorbed Paris after the French Revolution. The property includes a main building and two pavilions. Duke died in 1868, and his legacy and daughter sold the house to industrialist and art collector Jules Marmottan, who was accumulated mainly by Italian, Flemish and German primitive primitives. In 1883, Marmottan’s treasure was passed to his only son Paul, who later devoted himself to studying history, especially the history of the Napoleonian era, and collected related art, including marble statues from the Emperor’s family, furniture from the Tuileries Palace, which was once one of the residences in Paris and once belonged to the Nape family, the family of Nape. Académiedes Beaux-Arts, which Acconthe Maints took over its management in 1932.
Opened in 1934, Musée Marmottan’s affiliation with Académie inspired donations, including works by French academic painter William Adolphe Bouguereau and works by naturalist Jules Bastien-Lepage. Donations from collector Georges de Bellio’s daughter, Victorine Donop de Monchy, brought new directions in new directions and added First Impressionist canvases, including works by Camille Pissarro, Pierre-Auguste Renoir and Alfred Sisley, as well as Claude Monet’s famous 1872 paintings of 1872 Impression, sunrise.
Another legacy that changed the museum’s property was made by Michel Monet, the painter’s youngest son. Donated in 1966, it consists of more than a hundred works by the father of Impressionism, including a large group of people Water lily. Therefore, the current name of the institution is Musée Marmottan Monet. Thanks to the Rouart family, the museum now also houses the world’s first collection of works by their forebear, Impressionist painter Berthe Morisot, along with drawings and paintings by Edouard Manet, Edgar Degas, and Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot, forever reconciling the Académie des Beaux-Arts with Impressionism, a movement that was initially deemed no match for great masters.
