The Musée Delacroix is hosting Jardins parisiens, a project by Terri Weifenbach created as part of a commission for the City Book Paris, published by Louis Vuitton Editions.
The project resonates deeply with the museum, which conceals a landscaped garden that extends and enriches the visitor experience.
“Between painters and gardens, a landscape of many layers, traces of human presence, wild and hybrid flowers, birds adapted to urban parks.
Colour as definition and composition. Line and bokeh as suggestion.
I think of the energy of Cecily Brown, of Delacroix, the hues of a certain Vuillard, the natural palette of Théodore Rousseau, the abstractions of Joan Mitchell.
I exist in this world as I exist in the garden while photographing, wondering how to translate three dimensions into two.
I record what I feel, based on my own needs. I question the fragility that coexists with the ceaseless.”
— Terri Weifenbach
Le musée national Eugène-Delacroix
The Musée National Eugène-Delacroix is housed in the apartment and studio where Eugène Delacroix lived and worked from 1857 until his death.
Today, visitors can explore the painter’s former living quarters — including the dining room, salon, and bedroom — where a selection of his works is on display. The visit continues into Delacroix’s studio, which opens onto a charming small garden. The artist himself had this studio built, and he worked there surrounded by thousands of sketches and drawings, as well as objects brought back from his travels in Morocco.
The museum’s collection includes paintings, drawings, prints, and letters by Delacroix and his contemporaries, offering a rich and varied insight into the painter’s work and creative process.