Remarks
Several buildings, linked together by winter gardens full of exotic plants, give this museum a maze-like feel. Danish painting is not the main focus of interest here, even though there are some lovely landscape paintings and a fine Self-Portrait by Lundbye. The rooms devoted to Antiquities are exceptionally well appointed, both in terms of geographical coverage (from Sumer in Egypt to Greece and Rome via the Etruscans) and the quality of the work on display here. There is a colossal group of Ramses II, the famous alabaster Nile Hippopotaus, Cypriot silver plates Attic heads and bas-reliefs from Rhodes, Greek portraits of great men and their Roman counterparts, Roman copies of Polycletes and Praxitelus, and many objects from the Etruscan civilisation (jewels, sarcophaguses, urns, etc.) The other area of interest is the collection of paintings and sculptures from 19-20C France. Here you will find sculptures by Rodin (including The Kiss), Carpeaux and Degas, paintings by Géricault, Delacroix, Daumier (Don Quixot and Sancho Panza), Corot, Millet, Courbet, Manet (Le Buveur, Portrait de Mlle Lemonnier), Berthe Morisot, Renoir, Sisley (Flood in Port-Marly), Monet (Ombres sur la mer, Rochers de Belle-Isle, etc.) Autoportrait au chapeau melon by Cézanne, Femme au gardénia by Gauguin, Portrait du Père Tanguy by Van Gogh and Paysage de Saint-Rémy.