The museum of impressionism in Paris [antikvár]

The galleries of the Jeu de PauiME and the Orangerie were placed under the care of the Director of the Musée du Luxembourg in 1927, for the exhibition of foreign painting and Impressionist pictures belonging to the state. These had been piled up for a long time in a small room that made viewing from a suitable distance impossible. After a brief period in the Louvre, they were at last found a large gallery and satis- factory hanging space in the Jeu de Paume. It was built in the reign of Napoleon III, altered in 1877, then in 1932 and completely renovated in 1959. The Galerie du Jeu de Paume, usually called the Musée de l'Impressionnisme, contains most of the Impressionist works owned by the state and particularly the donations made by Caillebotte (1894/96), Moreau-Nélaton (1906), Isaac de Camondo (1911) and Gachet (1951/ 54). They are not, however, all gathered together there, for the important Personnaz Collection (1937) is still exhibited in the Louvre to illustrate the final development of 19th century painting in the rooms devoted to it. Although the Musée du Jeu de Paume does not house all the Impressionist paintings it possesses, on the other hand, the works of several painters who were only on the fringes of Impressionism,