Jardin-musée Antoine Bourdelle d'Égreville, Sculpture garden museum in Égreville, France

The Jardin-musée Antoine Bourdelle is a sculpture museum set in a large garden displaying around 56 bronze works by French sculptor Antoine Bourdelle. The artworks are arranged across grass areas and between various trees, creating an open and airy setting where the sculptures exist in harmony with their green surroundings.

The site was originally agricultural land acquired between 1966 and 1969 by Michel and Rhodia Dufet-Bourdelle, who transformed it into an art garden. The family later donated the property to Seine-et-Marne department, establishing what is now the museum.

The garden was laid out by Michel Dufet, Bourdelle's son-in-law, as a French formal park with boxwood embroidery parterres whose flowers change colour with the seasons. Among the bronzes stands the statue of the Polish poet Adam Mickiewicz (1909-1910), a work linked to Bourdelle's Paris circle.

The garden welcomes visitors from May through late October and offers guided tours as well as artistic workshops during this season. Wear comfortable walking shoes since you will cover considerable ground as you move between the scattered artworks throughout the grounds.

Michel Dufet placed each bronze for its decorative effect rather than to illustrate Bourdelle's career, so some works were moved when new pieces arrived. The garden holds 56 bronzes installed between 1967 and the early 1980s, most cast specially for this site, including the equestrian General Alvear monument with its four allegorical figures.