Musée de la Vie Romantique
The Musée de la Vie romantique (Romanticism Museum), established in 1983, is dedicated to the art and literature of the first half of the 19th century. It is located in the 9th arrondissement of Paris .
building
The small museum, which includes a greenhouse with an integrated café and a small garden, is located in a back building on Rue Chaptal 16 in Paris , at the foot of the Montmartre hill. It is owned by the city and is part of a network of 14 Paris museums.
The building dates from 1830 and is today one of the last examples of an artist's house from the time of the Restoration and the July Monarchy . The last owners were the descendants of the family of the painter Ary Scheffer (1795-1858), who once lived here, and Ernest Renan (1823-1892), the writer and religious scholar who was married to the daughter of Ary Scheffer's nephew.
exhibition
On the ground floor there are jewelry, objects, furniture and portraits owned by the writer George Sand . In 1923, George Sand's granddaughter, Aurore Lauth-Sand, left the collection to the City of Paris. On the first floor there is a cross-section of the work of the painter Ary Scheffer. You can also visit the salon where Ary Scheffer received the artistic and literary elite of the time, such as George Sand, Frédéric Chopin , Eugène Delacroix , Gioachino Rossini , Franz Liszt , Charles Dickens and Pauline Viardot-García . Other rooms are reserved for changing temporary exhibitions.
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Web links
Footnotes
- ↑ The German name Romantic Museum can be found in Alain-Xavier Wurst: Gretchen and Chopin article in Die Zeit of March 27, 2013. The museum is also referred to on www.paris360.de .
- ↑ http://vie-romantique.paris.fr/fr/ernest-renan accessed on March 6, 2019
- ↑ http://vie-romantique.paris.fr/fr/le-musée-de-la-vie-romantique/histoire-du-musée accessed on March 6, 2019
Coordinates: 48 ° 52 '53.2 " N , 2 ° 20' 0.9" E