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.
Useful information
Musée Eugène-Delacroix
6, rue de Furstenberg
75006 Paris
Tel: +33(0)1 44 41 86 50
Fax: +33(0)1 43 54 36 70
Groups with guide
(by appointment only)
Tel: +33(0)1 40 20 51 77
Fax: +33(0)1 40 20 58 24
Workshops
Tel: +33(0)1 44 41 86 59
Online
Visit the museum’s website: www.musee-delacroix.fr
Access
Metro: Saint-Germain-des-Prés, Mabillon
Bus: lines 39, 63, 70, 86, 95 and 96
Car parks: Rue des Saints-Pères (opposite the faculty of medicine), junction of Saint-Germain-des-Prés/Rue de Rennes
Opening times
The museum is open everyday except Tuesdays, from 9.30am to 5pm.
Closed: Tuesdays, 1st January, 1st May and 25th December.
Admission
Full rate: €5
Permanent collections free everyday for visitors aged under 26, and every first Sunday of the month for everyone.
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