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Bazille, Boudin, CailleBotte, Cassatt, Cézanne, Corot, degas

gonzales, guillaumin, Jongkind, manet, monet, morisot

Pissarro, renoir, rodin, sisley

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Press contact: 

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  I - Foreword 

Patrick de Carolis,  

Director of the Musée Marmottan Monet 



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  II - Homage to Collectors 

Claire Durand-Ruel Snollaerts  

and Marianne Mathieu, Exhibition curators 

 

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III - Press release  

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IV - Tour of the exhibition

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V - Visuals available for the press 

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VI - Publications

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VII - The curatorial team  

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VIII - The Musée Marmottan Monet  

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IX - Practical information



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For many art lovers, acquiring art is more than a pleasure: it is 



a passion, a deep and sincere commitment, part of what makes 

them who they are. In the early 20th century, several of them were 

determined that the masterpieces they had patiently assembled 

should not be dispersed after their death, destroying their life’s 

work. They chose to bequeath their precious collections to the 

community, in order that they could be kept in their home. So 

it was that a number of collector’s museums opened in Paris, 

bearing the names of their founders: Henri Cernuschi, Camondo, 

Édouard André and Nélie Jacquemart, Ernest Cognacq and 

Marie-Louise Jay, for example. This is also true of our Musée Marmottan Monet. Acquired 

by Paul Marmottan, a man with a passion for the Empire period, the townhouse in rue 

Louis-Boilly entered the possession of the Académie des Beaux-Arts in 1932, after his death, 

and opened to the public as a museum on June 21, 1934. 

The museum began life with an exceptional heritage, and was progressively enriched. 

Doubling its collections over barely eight decades, it has also extended to Impressionism. 

From Victorine Donop de Monchy it obtained Impression, soleil levant and the collection of 

her father, Dr Georges de Bellio. Michel Monet chose the Marmottan as his universal legatee, 

making the institution the assign of Claude Monet and guardian of the world’s largest col-

lection of his works. Berthe Morisot’s descendants showed similar generosity: through the 

Fondation Denis et Annie Rouart and the Thérèse Rouart bequest, the museum is also home 

to the leading public collection of her art. 

The exhibition “Impressionist Works from Private Collections, 100 Masterpieces” brings 

together key works held by private owners which include paintings, drawings and sculptures 

by Corot, Boudin, Jongkind, Manet, Bazille, Monet, Renoir, Degas, Morisot, Sisley, Pissarro, 

Guillaumin, Cassatt, Gonzalès and Rodin, offering a panorama of Impressionism. These 

works are worthy of inclusion in the most prestigious museums. We would like to express 

our sincerest gratitude to the fifty-one lenders who joined this project and helped make this 

a unique event. Their enthusiasm and unfailing support were on a par with their generosity. 

All were ready to denude their walls, letting their finest artworks leave them for the duration 

of our exhibition. During those months, the Musée Marmottan Monet will be their home. 

And, for the next eighty years, it will remain the museum of great collectors. 

Patrick de Carolis

Director of the Musée Marmottan Monet 



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The history of Impressionism is the story of a group of young artists who, in 1874, rejected 



by the official bodies who declared themselves the sole arbiters and guarantors of “good 

artistic taste” in France, decided to exhibit their works in the premises lent to them by the 

photographer Nadar at 35, boulevard des Capucines, Paris. These artists went by the names 

of Monet, Renoir, Pissarro, Degas, Sisley, Berthe Morisot, Guillaumin and Cézanne. Their 

leading light was Manet, although he never actually exhibited with them. The public was 

shocked, the critics outraged. And yet, despite this mortifying failure, nothing could shake 

the faith of these artists who, supported by a handful of visionary dealers and collectors, 

steadfastly pursued the greatest aesthetic revolution of their time. From the outset, then, 

Impressionism was a private adventure. If the Impressionist painters did eventually enjoy 

acclaim and success, and establish their position in the history of art, it was down to the 

daring, courage and perspicacity of this pioneering generation.

In its eighty years of existence, the Musée Marmottan Monet, housed in the former resi-

dence of Jules and Paul Marmottan, has gradually become one of the great centers for 

Impressionism. This, indeed, was the place chosen by the painters’ descendants, and their 

first admirers, as the setting for their family collections.

In 1957, Victorine Donop de Monchy bequeathed the works by Monet, Pissarro, Sisley, Renoir, 

Morisot and Guillaumin inherited from her father, the friend and doctor of the Impressionists, 

Georges de Bellio, with, at their center, Impression, soleil levant. This painting which gave its 

name to Impressionism anchored the museum’s collections in this area and became their 

symbol. In 1966, the establishment inherited the world’s leading collection of works by Claude 

Monet through his son, Michel. And in 1996, through the Fondation Denis et Annie Rouart and 

the Thérèse Rouart bequest, Berthe Morisot’s grandchildren brought the biggest public col-

lection of her works into the museum, along with art by her circle of friends.

The daughters and sons of the artists and their supporters chose the Musée Marmottan 

Monet to honor the memory of their parents and to conserve their work. How could they forget 

their lifelong commitment and their struggle, beginning in the early 1870s, when they were 

the only ones to champion a form of painting that met with mockery and contempt? By 

bequeathing their collections to the Musée Marmottan Monet, their descendants were 

entrusting to it part of their history, their childhood reminiscences, and the duty of preserving 

its memory.

How many paintings, watercolors and pastels were never sold, because they were sim-

ply too fraught with personal memories, and made as tokens of friendship or love? Like 

Monet’s portraits of his first wife Camille Doncieux and their two sons, Jean and Michel. 

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Gustave Caillebotte, Intérieur, 

femme à la fenêtre, about 1880

Private collection 



Auguste Rodin, Étude pour 

Le Penseur, about 1880

Private collection 



Camille Pissarro,  

Paul-Émile Pissarro 

peignant, 1898

Private collection

 

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or the picture of her husband, Eugène Manet, painted by Berthe Morisot on their honey-

moon in 1875. Or, finally, the portraits of their only daughter, Julie, who became her mother’s 

favorite subject. Their descendants could have kept such works in the family, but they 

preferred to donate them.

Consequently, many of the works that constitute the collections of the Musée Marmottan 

Monet are not just masterpieces of Impressionism. Many of them also have a personal, 

domestic value. Each painting bears the stamp of a family’s involvement and engagement 

with art and the legatee’s desire that they continue to exist in a house, the townhouse of 

Jules and Paul Marmottan, which is now their museum.

This exhibition retraces the history of private acquisitions through a rigorous selection of works 

from longstanding and recent collections around the world. For while the first collectors of 

Impressionist works were French, this art soon spread abroad and became an international 

adventure. The quality of the pieces is on the same level as that of the works in France’s 

leading institutions. It bears witness to the taste and prescience of their owners. Yesterday’s 

and today’s collectors come together in their passion for this painting. All appreciate its 

main characteristics, its choice of subjects from everyday life, its clear, luminous and colorful 

vision, free of the bituminous and earthy tones of academic painting, its attentive study of 

the effects of light on bodies and objects, and its use of accumulated, small and commalike 

brushstrokes as the best way of capturing the vibrations of the atmosphere. All these 

elements are manifest in the selection of works shown in this exhibition.

All the lenders generously and enthusiastically agreed to part with some of their greatest 

treasures for the duration of this celebration of the Musée Marmottan Monet’s eightieth 

anniversary, in order to share them with the public. Like the first collectors of Impressionist 

works, these are men and women who see art as a natural and necessary condition of their 

existence. They live with their works, not for the sake of egotistical enjoyment, but in order 

to appreciate their beauty and communicate their passion. We owe them an immense debt 

of gratitude. The townhouse that is the Musée Marmottan Monet is the ideal setting for such 

an exhibition. When visiting it, we can imagine ourselves exploring the private residence of 

one single collector.

Claire Durand-Ruel Snollaerts and Marianne Mathieu 

Exhibition curators




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Impressionnist Works from Private Collections 

100 Masterpieces

The Musée Marmottan Monet

From February the 13th – July the 6th 2014 

Opened for the first time to the public in 1934, the Musée Marmottan Monet will celebrate 

its 80th birthday in 2014. In less than a century, the museum has benefited from bequests 

and donations of an unparalleled scale making it the largest collection worldwide of the 

works by Claude Monet and Berthe Morisot. Without the generosity of private collectors and 

descendants of the artists, it would not have been possible to become the centre of Impres-

sionism that it is today. Respectful of this heritage, the museum begins it’s birthday celebrations 

paying tribute to private collections.

The Musée Marmottan Monet will present from February 13 - July 6, 2014 an exhibition entitled: 



Impressionnist Works from Private Collections. 100 Masterpieces, showing works only from 

private collections. The art historian Claire Durand-Ruel Snollaerts and Marianne Mathieu, 

deputy director of Musée Marmottan Monet are the curators for this special exhibition.

Fifty lenders joined with enthusiam for this project and have provided loans from France, the 

United States, Mexico, Switzerland, Great Britain and Italy. This exhibition offers a unique 

opportunity for the public to discover paintings which for the most part have never been seen 

by the public eye. One hundred impressionist masterpieces will be exceptionally shown 

together. Eighty paintings and twenty graphic works by Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot, Eugène 

Boudin, Johan Barthold Jongkind, Edouard Manet, Frédéric Bazille, Claude Monet, Pierre-

Auguste Renoir, Edgar Degas, Camille Pissarro, Alfred Sisley, Gustave Caillebotte, Berthe 

Morisot, Armand Guillaumin, Paul Cezanne, Mary Cassatt, Eva Gonzales and Auguste Rodin 

allow the viewer to trace the history of Impressionism through a collection of unpublished works.

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Eugène Boudin, 

BénervilleLa Plage, 1890

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Berthe Morisot, Jeune fille 

à la potiche, vers 1889

Private collection 

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The exhibition starts with the premicise of Impressionism. It continues into 1874 and the years 

1880-1890 when the Impressionist group broke up, giving way to the creative genius of each 

of its members. Finally, the last part of the exhibition shows the works of masters such as 

Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Camille Pissarro, Alfred Sisley and Claude Monet, who in many respects 

go beyond Impressionism, opening a window onto modern art and bringing us to the end of 

the exhibition.

The exhibition is chronological, starting with the landscapes of Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot, 

Johan Barthold Jongkind and Eugène Boudin, showing the latter’s Bénerville. La plage, in an 

unfamiliar format. A version of Edouard Manet’s Le Bar aux Folies Bergères and La Terrasse 



from Méric de Frédéric Bazille conclude the first part of the exhibt. Each impressionist is then 

represented through a dozen paintings spanning his or her entire career. Sur les planches de 



Trouville, hôtel des Roches Noires from Claude Monet (1870), Meule from Camille Pissarro 

(1873) and Le Jardin de Maubuisson, Pontoise by Paul Cézanne (c. 1874), are some shining 

examples of the section devoted to the 1870s. Le Tournant du Loing à Moret, printemps from 

Alfred Sisley (1886), Les Jeunes filles au bord de la mer by Auguste Renoir (vers 1890), the 

double portrait Pagans et le père de l’artiste by Edgar Degas (vers 1895) and Les Dahlias, le 

jardin du Petit-Gennevilliers by Gustave Caillebotte (1893) however, are typical of the work of 

the late nineteenth century. As well as these paintings, the exhibition reveals two exceptional 

sculptures, La Petite danseuse de 14 ans by Edgar Degas and Étude pour Le Penseur, in 

terracotta by Auguste Rodin, representing a selection worthy of the greatest museums.

This exhibition both unique and compelling is a testament to the presence and enthusiasm 

still alive in the private collections of the Impressionist Masters.



Alfred Sisley,

La Seine à Bougival, 1872

Private collection




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The origins of Impressionism

The precursors of lmpressionism are Jean-Baptiste Corot, Eugène Boudin and Johan Barthold 

Jongkind. Their exploration of light and their predilection for painting after nature and in the 

open air all anticipate the working methods of the lmpressionists. They were also good edu-

cators, and were chosen by many members of the group as their teachers. However, the true 

leader of the new movement was Manet, the first artist to dare defy official bodies by exhib-

iting scandalous paintings such as Le Déjeuner sur l’herbe and Olympia as of 1863. The 

modernity of his subjects and the boldness of his rebellion against academicism opened the 

path to the new generation of artists. ln this section Manet and the young Frédéric Bazille put 

down in the flower of youth by the war of 1870 – are represented by two legendary paintings: 

the former by his study for Bar aux Folies Bergère, the latter with the spectacularly large-

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Impressionism in around 1874

ln 1874 a group of artists in revolt against the taste imposed by the Académie des Beaux-Arts 

organized its first exhibition on the premises of the photographer Nadar at 35 Boulevard 

des Capucines, Paris. Among them were Monet, Renoir, Pissarro, Degas, Sisley, Berthe 

Morisot, Guillaumin and Cézanne. The name they were given, “Impressionist”, was inspired 

by Monet’s painting Impression, soleil levant, a masterpiece now in the collection of the 

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Frédéric Bazille,

La Terrasse de Méric, 1867

The Association of Friends 

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time, and explains its success since, were precisely 

the movement’s defining characteristics: an interest in 

subjects taken from modern life, the light and lumi-

nous palette, and the attentive study of the effects 

of light and atmosphere on people and landscapes. 

These artists particularly favoured locations along the 

Seine (La Seine à Bougival, Sisley) and the beaches of 

Normandy (Sur les Planches de Trouvillehôtel des Roches noires, Monet). Cézanne’s lmpres-

sionist period lasted a decade (1872-1882). Towards the end of the 1870s he became increas-

ingly interested in the study of form and volumes (Le Jardin de Maubuisson, Pontoise), and 

less in changing light. In 1882 he settled in Provence, and did not exhibit with the group again.



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  Caillebotte

Born into a wealthy family, Gustave Caillebotte was the 

only lmpressionist painter who was able to pursue his 

passions – sailing and gardening as well as painting 

– without financial constraints. Rich and also gener-

ous, he supported his friends by acquiring their works, 

becoming one of their first and most important patrons. 

When he died, in 1894, he had collected sixty-seven 

works by his confreres. He bequeathed the ensemble 

to the French state, which was more than a little discomfited, not knowing what to do with 

this collection of artists its representatives deemed decadent. ln the end, thirty  eight works 

entered the Musée du Luxembourg in 1896. These pieces by Degas, Monet, Renoir, Pissarro, 

Sisley and Cézanne are now among the treasures of France‘s national collections. As for 

Caillebotte‘s own painting, it is noteworthy for its remarkable views of Paris (Rue Halévy, 



vue du sixième étage), depictions of the flowers in his gardens (Les Dahlias, jardin du Petit  

Gennevilliers), and regattas on the Seine.

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Impressionism in around 1880 

ln the 1880s the lmpressionists had to fight hard for 

artistic acceptance while also struggling with real finan-

cial hardship. Despite the failure of their first exhibition 

in 1874, the group refused to give up and continued 

holding such events until 1886. The eighth, final exhibi-

tion showed them losing cohesion. From now on, the ties 

of friendship notwithstanding, each painter followed 

the path of his or her own creative genius. Monet moved 

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Paul Cézanne 

Le Jardin de Maubuisson, 

Pontoise, about 1877

Private collection, 

Dallas, Texas 

Gustave Caillebotte, 

Rue Halévy, vue du 

sixième étage, 1878

Private collection, 

Dallas, Texas 

Berthe Morisot, 

La Seine à Bougival

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Private collection




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to Giverny, Renoir to Cagnes, Pissarro to Eragny-sur-Epte, and Sisley to Moret-sur-Loing, 

while Caillebotte settled in Le Petit-Gennevilliers, and Degas and Morisot stayed in Paris. 

Their work was enriched by new influences as their styles grew more distinct and confident, 

giving their sensibility free rein.

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Degas

His choice of themes – history painting, dance, horses, 

women at their toilette and portraits – make Degas 

the odd man out among the lmpressionists. This did 

not prevent him from being one of the group’s 

staunchest champions right from the early days in 

1874, even as he was establishing an original body of 

work quite distinct from that of his friends. What they 

had in common, above all, was the freedom with 

which they approached painting. A great admirer of 

Ingres and Delacroix, Degas learned from their mas-

tery of drawing and colour, striving to balance these two poles in bold compositions such as 



Pagans et le père de Degas and La Toilette après le bain. An accomplished draughtsman, 

endlessly inquisitive about artistic techniques, he also produced some remarkable prints 

and sculptures. La Petite Danseuse de quatorze ans is a remarkable example of the latter.

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Beyond Impressionism 

Most of the lmpressionist painters began to enjoy long-

due success and recognition in the 1890s. For Berthe 

Morisot, who died from a severe bout of influenza in 1895, 

this was too late. Sisley died in 1899 in a state of great 

financial uncertainty, leaving an important set of paint-

ings of the scenery around Moret sur-Loing (L’Église de 

Moret, le soir and Lisière de forêt). The other members 

of the group, actively supported by their dealer Paul 

Durand-Ruel, who showed their work to collectors around 

the world, and also championed by the Bernheim broth-

ers and Ambroise Vollard, entered the 20th century in a 

relatively serene cast of mind. Pissarro’s final years are 

notable for his series of urban views (Le Pont Corneille à Rouen, brume du matin and 

Le Louvre, soleil d’hiver, matin) before his death in 1903. Degas died in 1917 and Renoir in 

1919. Wracked by rheumatism, he spent his final years tirelessly painting his entourage 

(Léontine et Coco (Claude Renoir)). Monet was the longest-lived. Before his death in 1926, 

at the age of eighty-six, he continued to innovate in works like Leicester Square (Londres), 



la nuit and Hémérocalles au bord de l’eau, going well beyond lmpressionism to the verge 

of abstraction.



Edgar Degas, Pagans et le 

père de Degas, about 1895

Private collection of Isabelle 

and Scott Black

Claude Monet,  

Leicester Square (Londres),  

la nuit, about 1900-1901

Collection Larock-Granoff, 

Paris



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Edgar Degas 

– Petite danseuse de quatorze 



ans – 1879-1881 – Bronze – 98 cm c. base  

49 x 50 cm – Inscribed with the signiture, 

numbered and stamped by the foundation 

“Degas 


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Private european collection – © Studio Guespin

Frédéric Bazille 

– La Terrasse de Méric 

1867 – Oil on canvas – 97 x 128 cm 

Signed and dated lower right : F. Bazille 1867

Association des Amis du Petit Palais, Geneva 

© Studio Monique Bernaz, Geneva

Eugène Boudin 

– Bénerville. La Plage 

1890 – Oil on canvas – 90 x 130 cm

Signed and dated lower right : E. Boudin 90 

Private collection 

Edgar Degas 

– Pagans et le père de Degas 



c. 1895 – Oil on canvas – 81,3x83,8cm 

not signed – Collection of Isabelle Scott Black 

Photo Courtesy of Museum of Fine Arts, 

Boston


Gustave Caillebotte 

– Intérieur, femme  



à la fenêtre – About 1880 – Oil on canvas 

116 x 89 cm – Signed and dated lower right:  

G. Caillebotte 1880 – Private collection,  

© Comité Caillebotte, Paris

Paul Cézanne 

– Bosquet au jas de Bouffan 



c. 1875-76 – Oil on canvas – 54,3 x 73,7 cm 

not signed – Collection of Isabelle and  

Scott Black 

Paul Cézanne 

– Les grands Baigneurs 

about 1896-1898 – Colour lithograph on blank 

paper – sheet 49 x 61,5 cm Signed and dated 

lower right: P. Cézanne Private collection 

Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot 

– Le Cavalier 



sur la route – 1860-1865 – Oil on canvas 

40 x 56,5 cm – Signed lower right : Corot 

Collection Pérez Simón, Mexico – ©Arturo Piera

Eva Gonzalès 

– Le Moineau – between 

1865-1870 – Pastel on paper mounted on 

canvas – 63x51,5cm – Signed upper right: 

Eva Gonzalès – Private collection 

These visuals are available for the press in the unique setting of the promotion for the exhibition Les Impressionnistes 

en privé at the Musée Marmottan Monet from February the 13th, until July the 6th, 2014. Captions and credits are 

required. The museum’s name, the title of the exhibition and the dates should be given in any article containing these 

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Camille Pissarro, 



Vue de Bazincourt, temps 

clair – 1884 – oil on canvas – 54,3 × 64,8 cm

signed and dated lower right: C. Pissarro. 84 

Mexico City, Pérez Simón Collection

Alfred Sisley, 



Pommiers en fleur à Louveciennes 

1873 – oil on canvas – 50,8 × 73 cm – signed and dated 

lower right: Sisley 73, Dallas, Texas – private collection

Armand Guillaumin, 



Quai de la Rapée 

1873 – oil on canvas – 60 × 73 cm – signed 

and dated lower left: Guillaumin – private 

collection

Pierre-Auguste Renoir, 

Enfant assis en robe 

bleue (Portrait d’Edmond Renoir Jr.) – c. 1889 

oil on canvas – 64,8 × 54 cm – signed lower 

right: Renoir – Switzerland, Nahmad Collection

Alfred Sisley, 



Une cour à Chaville – c. 1879 

oil on canvas – 46 × 55,5 cm – signed lower right: 



Sisley – Curtin Family Collection

Johan Barthold Jongkind, 



Voilier dans le port 

de Honfleur – 1863 – oil on paper mounted on 

canvas – 25 × 35 cm – signed lower right: Jongkind 

and dated lower left: Honfleur 25 Sept 63

private collection, courtesy Brame & Lorenceau

Auguste Rodin, 

Étude pour Le Penseur 

c. 1880 – terracotta – 28,5 cm – signed on the 

base, lower right: A. Rodin – private collection

Claude Monet, 

Les Peupliers, automne 

c. 1891 – oil on canvas – 80 × 92 cm – signed 

lower left: Claude Monet – private collection, 

lent through the intermediary of Galerie 

Bernheim-Jeune, Paris

Claude Monet, 

Anglais à la moustache 

c. 1857 – pencil with gouache highlights

24 × 16 cm – signed lower right: O. Monet 

private collection

Berthe Morisot, 



Paysage – c. 1867

watercolor on paper – 14,5 × 22,7 cm – signed 

lower left: Berthe Morisot – private collection

Édouard Manet, 



Un bar aux Folies Bergère 

c. 1881 – oil on canvas – 47 × 56 cm – unsigned 

private collection, Rouart and Wildenstein

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Exhibition catalog co-edited by the musée Marmottan Monet 

and Hazan Editions.

Under the direction of Marianne Mathieu, Deputy Director 

in charge of collections and communication of the museum 

and Claire Durand-Ruel Snollaerts, art historian, 

the exhibition curators

Paperback, 22 x 28,5 cm

120 illustrations, 232 pages. 

Price : 29 €

ISBN : 9782754107389

Special issue Connaissance des Arts

44 pages 

Price : 9,50 e

ISBN: 978-2-7580-0517-9



Children’s book:

Monet, Renoir, Degas... La grande aventure des impressionnistes

RMN Editions, Musée Marmottan Monet)

Version FR : ISBN 9782351740194 

Version GB : ISBN 9782351740187





Educational workshops

On Wednesdays and during school holidays, children  

can discover the museum and its collections by attending  

educational workshops “Les P’tits Marmottan”.



Age : from 4 – 15 years old

Duration : 1h15 (thematic tour and workshop)

Price : 9€/per child

Information and reservations: 

Camille Pabois  – Tel : 01 44 96 50 41 

atelier@marmottan.com



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Marianne Mathieu

Marianne Mathieu is the joint director in charge of the collections at the 

Musée Marmottan Monet. She has curated heritage exhibitons for over 

10 years. Exhibitions that she has recently worked on include : “Raoul et 

Jean Dufy, complicité et rupture” (2011), “Berthe Morisot“ (2012) at the 

Musée Marmottan Monet, “Le jardin de Monet à Giverny” at The National 

Gallery of Victoria in Melbourne (2013).

Claire Durand-Ruel Snollaerts

Claire Durand-Ruel Snollaerts, Art Historian (Paris 1 – Sorbonne), and 

descendant of the dealer Paul Durand-Ruel, has devoted twenty to the 

research of understanding further the expertise of the painter Camille 

Pissarro. She is the co-author, with Joachim Pissarro of the Catalogue 

critique des Peintures, Wildenstein Institute and Skira (3 volumes), 2005.

She has contributed to the development of various exhibitions and 

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The Musée Marmottan Monet was originally a hunting lodge that belonged to Christophe 

Edmond Kellermann, Duke of Valmy (1802-1868). It was acquired in 1882 by Jules Marmottan, 

an amateur collector of German, Flemish and Italian primitive works. His son Paul was an art 

historian and avid collector, especially fascinated by the period of the First French Empire 

(1804-1814) and inherited this house and made it his home. From then onwards, he added a 

hunting lodge to receive his collection of art objects and paintings from the First French Empire

At his death in 1932, he bequeathed to the Académie de Beaux-Arts all of his collections and his 

mansion. The Musée Marmottan was born, and opened its doors on June the 21st, 1934.

In 1957, the museum’s collection expanded thanks to the considerable donation from Victorine 

Donop de Monchy, whom had inherited a large collection from his father Dr. Georges de Bellio, 

doctor to Manet, Monet, Pissarro, Renoir and Sisley . Georges de Bellio was one of the first 

fans of Impressionist painting. Among the many paintings offered was the famous Impression, 

Soleil Levant from Monet.

Michel Monet the second son of the painter, in turn bequeathed in 1966 to the Académie de 

Beaux-Arts his property at Giverny and his personal collection inherited from his father, 

specifying that it should be shown at the Musée Marmottan. He therefore helped the museum 

to acquire the largest collection of works by Claude Monet. In addition to numerous paintings, 

the legacy includes sketchbooks of the artist, pallets, letters, photographs, personal items, 

and the collection of paintings by the painters friends that he had always kept close to him. 

The architect academician and museum curator Jacques Carlu (1890-1976), then built a room 

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In 1981, Daniel Wildenstein offered the Musée Marmottan the Georges Wildenstein collec-



tion, which had belonged to his father. With over 300 French, Italian, English and Flemish 

minitures this collection is one of the largest in the world. It covers a period of four centuries, 

from the Middle ages to the Renaissance.

In the late 1990s, after other bequests such as Nelly Duhem in 1985 which, in addition to 

works by his father Henri Duhem, includes paintings of Paul Gauguin and Auguste Renoir. 

In 1993, the museum enriched its collections with works by Berthe Morisot, Edouard Manet, 

Edgar Degas, Auguste Renoir and Henri Rouart, bequeathed by Annie Rouart, wife of Denis 

Rouart, grandson of Berthe Morisot and Eugene Manet.

Since then, many other bequests were added to the museum’s collections and indeed 

many generous sponsors also contributed to the splendor of the collections of Musée 

Marmottan Monet.

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Address 

2, rue Louis-Boilly 

75016 Paris 

Website

www.marmottan.fr



Access 

Métro : La Muette – Line 9

RER : Boulainvilliers – Line C

Bus : 32, 63, 22, 52, P.C.



Days and opening times

Open Tuesday to Sunday

From 10 am until 6 pm

Thursday evenings until 8pm

Closed on Mondays, December 25th,

January 1st and May 1st



Prices 

Full Price : 10 €

Reduced Price : 5 €

Under 7 years old : free 



Group bookings 

Christine Lecca – Tel : 01 44 96 50 33 



Educational services

Camille Pabois  – Tel : 01 44 96 50 41



Audioguide

Available in French and English: 3 €



Shop

Open the same hours and days as the museum

Tel : 01 44 96 50 46 

boutique@marmottan.com 

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