This former railway station has been saved from destruction and today houses one of the art collections that caused the most scandal in France in the mid- and late 19th century.
The ideal, perfect and strict beauty, praised by the academicism of William-Adolphe Bouguereau and Alexandre Cabanel, mingles with the modernity of the canvases of Édouard Manet and the realists Gustave Courbet or Jean-François Millet, considered vulgar and rebellious in their time. But it is above all the movement of rupture that gave birth to the avant-gardes of the 20th century, Impressionism, which is very well represented through its large collection: Claude Monet, Pierre-Auguste Renoir,
Camille Pisarro, Gustave Caillebotte, Edgar Degas, Berthe Morisot, among others.
We will end our chronological visit with the post-impressionism of Paul Gauguin, Toulouse-Lautrec and Vincent Van Gogh.
