Musée National Gustave Moreau

Installed in the family house of the painter, the museum was totally thought by Gustave Moreau (1826-1898). The apartments on the first floor are presented as a small sentimental museum where family portraits and works given away by their friends Théodore Chassériau or Edgar Degas hang. The second and third floors are occupied by huge workshops with several hundred paintings and watercolors. More than four thousand drawings leave the wall and provide a broad vision of the techniques and themes of which he was the undisputed master of French symbolism. Unique house-workshop in Paris, the nation...