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Musée Marmottan Monet is located at 2, rue Louis Boilly in the XVIe arrondissement of Paris. It...

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Musée Marmottan Monet is located at 2, rue Louis Boilly in the XVIe arrondissement of Paris. It features a collection of a hundred Impressionist works by Claude Monet, Berthe Morisot, Edgar Degas, Édouard Manet and Pierre-Auguste Renoir, as well as the Wildenstein Collection of illuminated manuscripts. Originally a hunting lodge for the Duke of Valmy it was purchased by Jules Marmottan in 1882 who later left it to his son Paul Marmottan. Marmottan moved into the lodge and with an interest in the Napoleonic era he expanded his father's collection of paintings, furniture and bronzes. Marmottan bequeathed his home and collection to the Académie des Beaux-Arts. The Académie opened up the house and collection as the Museum Marmottan in 1934. Important works have been donated to the museum over the years, most notably by Michel Monet, who left the museum his father Claude Monet's painting from the home in Giverny, creating the world's largest collection of Monet paintings.

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