Petit Palais - la cour

Petit Palais

The Courtyard

At the center of this beautiful palace is a quiet and serene courtyard with patio seating for lunch or un café.

  The museum is free and the courtyard is perfect for a rest after seeing the museum and its exquisite palace.


Do not miss Monet's  "Soleil Couchant sur la Seine à Lavacourt"
and Rembrandt's self-portrait painted in 1631.

Petit Palais, City of Paris Fine Art Museum
Avenue Winston Churchill
75008 Paris

Jardin du Palais Royal - XV

Jardin du Palais Royal

Do you think that she knows

I would love to be dipping my toes in the fountain

of this royal setting?

...and the water becomes a Monet painting.

Jardin du Palais Royal

75001, Paris



Musée Marmottan - La Cour

Originally built as a hunting lodge at the edge of Bois de Boulogne, this museum is filled with over 300 impressionist paintings and the largest collection of Monet's works in the world. This is the cloistered courtyard and I will bring you back here again with photos and stories.

You may know of the controversy and dispute that stirred regarding the loan of Monet works from Marmottan for the Grand Palais exhibit last fall (2010). It seems that the magnificent Palais all but demanded the use of Monet paintings (all of the significant ones) which request was subsequently denied by the Marmottan. So, those who had to wait in long lines for the highly publicized exhibit might have enjoyed an afternoon at Marmottan. Tant pis pour eux...


Musée Marmottan
2, rue Louis Boilly
Métro La Muette