The Musée national Eugène Delacroix, also known as the Musée Delacroix, is an art museum dedicated to painter Eugène Delacroix (1798-1863) and located in the 6th arrondissement at 6, rue de Furstenberg, Paris, France. It is open daily except Tuesday; an admission fee is charged.
The museum is located in painter Eugène Delacroix's last apartment; he moved to this location on December 28, 1857, and remained until his death on August 13, 1863. In 1929 the Société des Amis d'Eugène Delacroix was formed to prevent the building's destruction, which in 1952 acquired the apartment, studio, and garden, and in 1954 donated the property to the French government. In 1971 the site became a national museum, and in 1999 its garden was renovated.
Today the museum contains Delacroix's memorabilia and works, including works from nearly every phase of his career, including the artist's only three attempts at fresco from Valmont (1834); the Education of the Virgin painted in Nohant in 1842; and Magdalene in the Desert exhibited at the 1845 Salon. It also contains:
- Drawings, primarily studies for paintings in the Chapelle des Saints-Anges at the Église Saint-Sulpice, but also drawings by some of Delacroix's friends and colleagues (Lassalle-Bordes, Huet, Poterlet, Saint-Marcel, Colin).
- Notes, sketches, and souvenirs for Delacroix's Morocco trip in 1832, including burnooses, haiks, caftans, djellabas, jewelry, sabers, cushions, slippers, boots, and ceramics.
- Studio items, including easel, palettes, painting tables, a glass he used for washing up, a small group of decorated faiences, and a pair of candlesticks.
- Photographs of Delacroix toward the end of his life, and letters to or from Delacroix.
- A library and documents concerning Delacroix and entourage, with more than 1,000 works (monographs, exhibition catalogues, research, etc.).
Hours
- Open daily except Tuesday, 9:30 am to 5 pm (tickets sold until 4:30 pm).
- Closed on January 1, May 1 and December 25.
Admission
- Full ticket price: €5
- Guided visits for groups, full price: €100
- Guided visits for groups, reduced price: €80 (Carte Louvre Jeunes card-holders, active teachers, students, job-seekers)
- Guided visits for schoolchildren: €53
Free: for children under 18, university students and students of public art schools, teachers, members of the Friends of the Musée Eugène Delacroix and Friends of the Louvre, professional artists, journalists holding a press card, job-seekers, Carte Louvre Jeunes card-holders—and for everyone, the first Sunday of every month as well as July 14.
Because of the small size of the museum's rooms, we must limit groups to 25 people (including the guide) and schedule them at separate times. Reservations are required for groups of seven people or more
How to get there
- Métro: Saint-Germain-des-Prés (line 4), Mabillon (line 10)
- Bus: 39, 63, 70, 86, 95, 96
- Parking lots: Rue des Saints-Pères (opposite the Medical School) Intersection of Saint-Germain-des-Prés and rue de Rennes
- Taxis: Intersection of Saint-Germain-des-Prés and rue de Rennes
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