Musée national Eugène-Delacroix, National art museum in 6th arrondissement, Paris, France
The Musée national Eugène-Delacroix occupies the first floor of a cream-stone building at 6, rue de Furstemberg, entered through a dark wooden double door beneath a plaque. The roughly 150-square-metre apartment keeps its 1857 layout: an antechamber, Delacroix's bedroom and salon on the garden side, and a library opening onto the stair to the studio he built in the garden.
Delacroix moved into the apartment at 6, rue de Furstemberg on 28 December 1857, leaving his rented studio in rue Notre-Dame-de-Lorette to be near Saint-Sulpice, and lived there until his death on 13 August 1863. In 1928 the owner ended the lease, and painters Maurice Denis and Paul Signac, with historians André Joubin and Raymond Escholier, formed the Société des Amis d'Eugène Delacroix; the museum opened in June 1932. The Société bought the apartment, studio and garden in 1952 and gave them to the State, which made the site a national museum in 1971.
The museum keeps the apartment's 1857 layout: an antechamber serving Jenny Le Guillou's bedroom and the dining room on the courtyard side, Delacroix's bedroom and salon on the garden side, and a small library by the studio stairs. The Société des Amis d'Eugène Delacroix, led by Maurice Denis with Henri Matisse and Paul Signac, was founded to save the rooms.
The museum is at 6, rue de Furstemberg, off the courtyard of the former abbey palace. The apartment occupies the first floor, with Delacroix's studio in the garden reached by a separate staircase. The rooms are small, and the museum is closed on Tuesdays.
The museum's collection includes Delacroix's only three attempts at fresco, made in 1834 at Valmont, and a group of North African garments and objects he brought back from his 1832 trip to Morocco, among them burnooses, caftans and ceramics.
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