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Musée Gustave Moreau

Museums / Galleries, Opéra/Grands Boulevards

Fodor's Review:

A visit to this town house and studio of painter Gustave Moreau (1826-98), high priest of the Symbolist movement, is one of the most distinctive artistic experiences in Paris. The Symbolists strove to convey ideas through images, but many of the ideas Moreau was trying to express were so obscure that the artist had to provide explanatory texts, which rather confuses the point. But it's easy to admire his extravagant colors and flights of fantasy influenced by Persian and Indian miniatures. The museum tour (in French only) includes the artist's studio, some personal ephemera, and a significant collection of his drawings, paintings, watercolors, and sculptures. From Galeries Lafayette (or the Chaussée D'Antin métro stop), follow rue de la Chaussée d'Antin up to the Trinité church, turn right on rue St-Lazare and left on rue de la Rochefoucauld. The museum is a block up on the right.

INFO

Address: 14 rue de la Rochefoucauld, Opera/Grands Boulevards, Paris
Phone: 01-48-74-38-50
Web site
Cost: EUR 4
Open: Wed.-Mon. 10-12:45 and 2-5:15
Metro: Trinite.

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