Sculpture Museum sights in France
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Musée Bourdelle
The Bourdelle Museum contains monumental bronzes in the house and workshop where sculptor Antoine Bourdelle (1861–1929), a pupil of Rodin, lived and worked. The three sculpture gardens are particularly lovely and impart a flavour of belle époqueand post-WWI Montparnasse. The museum usually has a temporary exhibition going on alongside its permanent collection (free when there’s no exhibition taking place).
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Musée Maillol-Fondation Dina Vierny
This splendid little museum focuses on the work of sculptor Aristide Maillol (1861–1944) and also includes works by Matisse, Gauguin, Kandinsky, Cézanne and Picasso. All are from the private collection of Odessa-born Dina Vierny (b 1915-), Maillol’s principal model for 10 years from the age of 15. The museum is located in the stunning 18th-century Hôtel Bouchardon.
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Musée de la Sculpture en Plein Air
Along quai St-Bernard, this open-air sculpture museum (also known as the Jardin Tino Rossi) has over 50 late-20th-century unfenced sculptures, and makes a great picnic spot. A salad beneath a César or a baguette beside a Brancusi is a pretty classy way to see the Seine up close, short of actually getting on it by joining a cruise.
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Galerie David d'Angers
Angers' most famous son is the sculptor Pierre-Jean David (1788–1856), often just known as David d'Angers. Renowned for lifelike busts and sculptures, his work adorns public monuments all over France, notably at the Panthéon, the Louvre and Père Lachaise cemetery (where he carved many tombstones, including Honoré de Balzac's). His work forms the cornerstone of this museum, housed in the converted 12th-century Toussaint Abbey and flooded with light through a striking glass-and-girder ceiling.
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