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Bührle Collection at the Maillol Museum

Posted onMay 26, 20193 Comments

In the spring of 2019, the Musée Maillol in Paris exhibited artworks from the Emil Bührle Collection from Switzerland, featuring paintings (and a few sculptures) by Manet, Degas, Renoir, Monet, Read More …

Categories_7th arrondissementTagsMuseums, Museums in Paris

Foujita in the Maillol Museum

Posted onApril 9, 2019April 7, 20198 Comments

“Foujita, painter in the crazy years” was the title of an exhibition in the Maillol Museum in Paris in the summer of 2018. Although I am not a huge fan Read More …

Categories_7th arrondissementTagsMuseums, Museums in Paris

Dina Vierny and the Maillol Museum

Posted onNovember 22, 2018May 16, 20194 Comments

Aristide Maillol (1861–1944) was a French artist who spent most of his career drawing, painting and sculpting nude women.

Categories_7th arrondissementTagsMuseums, Museums in Paris, Sculpture

Musée Jacquemart-André

Posted onNovember 21, 2018November 28, 20184 Comments

Édouard André (1833-1894) was the heir of a wealthy Protestant banking family. He used his fortune to collect works of art to be exhibited in his new mansion, which was Read More …

Categories_8th arrondissementTagsMuseums, Museums in Paris

Maritime Museum in Paris

Posted onNovember 11, 2018November 25, 20184 Comments

On August 11, 1858, the emperor Napoléon III arrived in Brest in his uncle’s boat, the Canot de l’empereur, rowed by twenty oarsmen, with a golden Neptune on the front Read More …

Categories16th arrondissementTagsMuseums, Museums in Paris, Victor Hugo

Cité de l’architecture & du patrimoine

Posted onNovember 3, 2018November 22, 20184 Comments

This architecture museum traces its history back to the year 1795, but in its current form it didn’t open until 2007 in the east wing of the Palais de Chaillot. Read More …

Categories16th arrondissementTagsMuseums, Museums in Paris

Pavillon de l’Arsenal

Posted onNovember 2, 2018September 2, 20191 Comment

The Pavillon de l’Arsenal describes itself as “the centre for information, documentation and exhibition for urban planning and architecture of Paris.” They say it is “a unique place, where information Read More …

Categories_4th arrondissementTagsMuseums, Museums in Paris

Orangerie

Posted onSeptember 28, 2018November 4, 20183 Comments

As the name implies, the Orangerie in Paris was originally built as a greenhouse for growing orange trees. The building is located in one corner of the Tuileries garden next to Read More …

Categories_1st arrondissementTagsMuseums, Museums in Paris

French Army Museum in the Invalides

Posted onJuly 15, 2018August 24, 20183 Comments

After my glorious military career of one year, nine months and thirteen days as a draftee in the American Army (including fifty-one weeks in Vietnam), I am not exactly what Read More …

Categories_7th arrondissementTagsMuseums, Museums in Paris

Musée des plans-reliefs

Posted onJuly 14, 2018August 22, 20182 Comments

On the top floor of one wing of Les Invalides in Paris there is an unusual museum showing twenty-eight large relief-map models that were made starting in the seventeen century, Read More …

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