Laura Gascoigne

Who knew that Cézanne had a sense of humour?

Until 6 July, the Musée Marmottan Monet is even more essential than usual for lovers of the Impressionists

‘Le Port au chemin de fer à Honfleur’, 1866, by Johan Barthold Jongkind [Getty Images/Shutterstock/iStock/Alamy] 
issue 01 March 2014

Tourists are attracted to queues, art lovers to quietude. So while the mass of Monet fans visiting Paris line up outside the Musée d’Orsay and the Orangerie, connoisseurs head to the Musée Marmottan, an institution so surprisingly little known that it had to rename itself the Musée Marmottan Monet to flag up the fact that it owns the world’s largest collection of Monets.

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