Musée Eugène Delacroix
Eugène Delacroix Museum
The Eugène-Delacroix Museum, in the heart of the Saint-Germain-des-Prés district, is housed in the workshop, garden and part of the private apartment where the painter moved in 1857 to be near the Saint-Sulpice church, whose Saints-Anges chapel he had just been commissioned to decorate. This is where he lived for the last six years of his life. In intimate surroundings, the recently refurbished museum displays a selection of the great painter’s paintings, watercolours, pastels, sketches and preparatory studies, as well as letters and photographs of his friends and family (Charles Baudelaire, Théophile Gautier, George Sand, Léon Riesener, etc). These provide an insight into the complex personality of a man who was one of the major figures of 19th-century French painting.
Since 2004, the Eugène Delacroix Museum has been attached to the Louvre Museum public institution.
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In 1991, the Rmn became a national public institution operating in industrial and commercial fields (EPIC) under the supervision of the French Ministry of Culture and Communication (Direction des Musées de France). >>
