Garden of the Rodin Museum .281755.29 History of parks and gardens of Paris

gardens of musée rodin (1755).



the gardens of musée rodin, modern reinterpretation of 18th-century formal residential garden

the musée rodin constructed between 1728 , 1731 townhouse abraham peyrenc, wealthy paris wig-maker. second owner, duchess of maine, created long green lawn-bowling, 2 covered alleys, , grove of trees left of entrance. house , garden purchased 1755 louis antoine de gontaut, duke of biron , marechal of royal army. enlarged garden south. following design of architect pierre-françois aubert , gardener dominique moisy, garden became model of classic french formal garden; lawn divided long north-south perspective , made 4 sections of flowerbeds around eighteen-meter basin. east side of garden filled trees, , added orangerie, dutch tulip garden, , vegetable garden @ end. duke held elaborate festivities , garden parties there, , opened garden public.

the duke died in 1788, on eve of revolution. after revolution house , garden became property of papal legate, of russian ambassador, , then, in 1820, of religious order, dames du sacré-coeur-du-jésus, , served boarding school until 1904. during time basin filled in, garden largely let grow wild, orchard of fruit trees added. dames built neo-gothic chapel in 1875, which, after order dissolved in 1904, became residence writers , artists rent space. sculptor auguste rodin became 1 of tenants in 1908. house , garden purchased french state in 1911. part of garden taken build neighboring lycée victor duruy, rodin remained tenant , placed works of sculpture along main path. after death in 1917, became museum devoted work, opened in 1919.

the basin restored in 1927, otherwise garden remained had been under religious order. beginning in 1993, garden redesigned landscape designer jacques sgard both open-air gallery display works of rodin, recapture appearance of 18th-century formal french residential garden.