Private collections at Marmottan-Monet: exhibition photos

With its exhibition Private Collections, from the Impressionists to the Fauves on view from September 13, 2018 to February 10, 2019, the Musée Marmottan-Monet pays tribute to the collectors who keep art alive.

Some 60 works sourced exclusively from the private collections of individuals from around the world are brought together for the occasion in this beautiful private museum, a museum itself conceived as a "collectors' house".

Originally the home of Paul Marmottan, the manor house became a museum on his death, displaying works acquired by his father and his own collection. The works come from the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, as well as the Consular and Empire periods. From 1938 onwards, donations and bequests followed, doubling the museum's collections and opening it up to Impressionism.

In autumn 2018, in addition to Monet's Views of Normandy, Creuse, Midi, London and Norway and paintings by Berthe Morisot, 60 works by Monet, Degas, Caillebotte, Renoir, Rodin, Camille Claudel, Seurat, Signac, Gauguin, Van Gogh, Redon, Vuillard, Bonnard, Derain, Vlaminck and Matisse will be on view.

Presented, in some cases, for the first time to the Parisian public, these masterpieces take visitors on an original journey through the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

The Impressionists open the tour. Landscapes of Bordighera, Belle-Ile, Rouen and Varengeville, elegant female portraits and genre scenes are all on display, including Gustave Caillebotte's famous Pont de l'Europe, the artist's last monumental masterpiece in private hands.

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The exhibition then moves on to Gauguin's Symbolism, the Pont Aven School with Toulouse-Lautrec and Emile Bernard, the Nabis with Bonnard, Vuillard and Odilon Redon, finishing with Fauve works by Derain, Vlaminck, Dufy and Van Dongen.

Gustave Caillebotte's Le Pont de l' Europe, a major work in the exhibition, shows passers-by on the metal bridge over the Gare Saint-Lazare in Paris in 1876, one of the most recognizable images of the Haussmann transformation of Paris. Here, a couple stroll along, while a man appears to contemplate the rail traffic.

More than a nod to the industrial revolution and the new Paris, Paris was still under martial law following the massacres of the Semaine Sanglante in May 1871, six years earlier, to which the dog is an allusion.

Immerse yourself in the exhibition:

For the Musée Marmottan-Monet, this beautiful exhibition is the follow-up to its Impressionists in Private exhibition , which we loved in 2014. To be continued!

Please note that it's been over 4 years since our last visit, so the place and experience may have changed.