Place de
Furstenberg
Romantic Saint-Germain des
Pres
This famous little place is the heart of St-Germain des Pres left bank
"chic adresse". All around, you will find many prestigious stores of
design,
materials, decoration and antiques. Many artists have painted this
romantic
Place. You will find there the Musée Delacroix. This
Musée
is where the artist lived and worked from 1857 until his death in 1863. the
renovated and enlarged museum holds changing temporary
exhibitions of Delacroix's work (consult Pariscope for details).
Displayed
here permanently in the painter's old apartment and studio are a few of
his
watercolours, a self-portrait of him dressed as Hamlet and some graphic
paintings
of a lion hunt. Delacroix's major work is exhibited permanently at the
Louvre
and the musee d'Orsay, and you can see the murals he painted at nearby
St-Sulpice
Church.
Musee delacroix, 6, rue de
Furstenberg. Daily except tuesday 9h30-5h30pm.
