Flash visits: discover the Museum of Romantic Life

Name: Visitas flash: al descubrimiento del museo de la Vida romántica
Start: 2023-09-16T14:00:00+02:00
End: 2023-09-16T17:50:00+02:00
Location: Musée de la vie romantique

Follow our guides in the courtyard of the museum and in the collections for a presentation of one of the rare Parisian artist’s studio-houses, that of the Romantic painter Ary Scheffer, qu…

Sábado 16 septiembre 2023, 14:00, 14:30, 15:30, 16:30, 17:30Passed

1er étage des collections permanentes © Elodie Ratsimbazafy / Paris Musées

Follow our guides in the courtyard of the museum and in the collections for a presentation of one of the few houses-workshop of Parisian artist, that of the painter of the romantic period Ary Scheffer, who taught the children of the Duke of Orléans and was the teacher of the sculptor Bartholdi.

About the location

Musée de la vie romantique

Hôtel Scheffer-Renan - 16 rue Chaptal 75009 Paris

Paris
Île-de-France

Built in 1830 at the heart of the named(appointed) district New Athens ", this house, house of the painter Ary Scheffer is since 1983 a museum of the Ville de Paris devoted to the evocation of the artistic and literary life of the first half of the XIXth century. A discreet path laid with cobblestones lined with hundred-year-old locust trees leads(drives) to an Italian-style detached house(flag) with its two workshops(studios), its court(yard) laid with cobblestones and the garden full of flowers of pink(roses) and of lilacs which kept(preserved) the romantic flavour(perfume) of former days. Paintings(Paints), sculptures and objects of the painter Ary Scheffer and his contemporaries contribute to evoke the atmosphere of lounges(shows) under the Restoration and the July Monarchy. Memories(Souvenirs) and memorabilia of George Sand - furniture(pieces of furniture), paintings(boards), works of art and jewels(jewellery) having belonged to the novelist, symbol of the modern woman - are also presented.