Musée national Eugène-Delacroix

Welcome to the hidden, romantic heart of the sixth arrondissement. We are standing on the edge of the Place de Furstenberg, a small, incredibly picturesque square lined with Paulownia trees and elegant streetlamps. …

Before we delve deeply into Delacroix's personal rooms, it is vital to understand the perilous history of the very building in which you are standing. After Delacroix's death in eighteen sixty-three, the apartment and the…

Let us step into the domestic sphere of the master, walking through the sequence of rooms that comprised his apartment. Unlike the vast, palatial galleries of the Louvre where his largest masterpieces hang, the scale here is…

As we move into the main salon of the apartment, I want you to consider the broader cultural world that Delacroix inhabited. He was not an isolated painter locked away in a garret; he was a central pillar of the Parisian…

We now approach the rear of the apartment, preparing to cross a threshold that is deeply symbolic. To reach his painting studio, Delacroix had to step out of his domestic apartment, descend a short flight of stairs, and walk…

Step now through the heavy doors and enter the breathtaking volume of the Atelier, the painting studio. The contrast between the low, intimate ceilings of the apartment and the soaring, expansive height of this room is deliberate…

From the studio, step outside into the final, and perhaps most enchanting, space of the museum: the private garden. In the densely packed, highly urbanized environment of nineteenth-century Paris, possessing a private, walled…

As we conclude our audio journey through the Musée national Eugène-Delacroix, I invite you to take one last look around the peaceful garden courtyard before returning through the apartment to the Place de Furstenberg. We have…