The Musée de la Vie Romantique occupies the former home and studios of painter Ary Scheffer in the Nouvelle Athènes district. Built in 1830, the house hosted artists and writers and preserves the domestic scale of nineteenth-century creative life.
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The house and studios were built in 1830.
Ary Scheffer lived there until his death in 1858.
The studios were oriented north for consistent light.
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At 16 rue Chaptal, the Musée de la Vie romantique keeps the scale of a home: a house and a pair of artists’ studios set behind a courtyard in Paris’s Nouvelle Athènes. Its story begins not with a public museum, but with painter Ary Scheffer, who moved here with his family in July 1830, when this developing neighborhood was attracting artists and writers.
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