Musée Bourdelle
Antoine Bourdelle’s studio is what makes the Musée Bourdelle distinctive: you’re effectively inside the working space of a major French sculptor, not just a gallery of finished works. Bourdelle was active there from 1885 to 1929, and in 1922 he began plans to turn that studio into a museum. The key turning point came in the early 1930s, when Gabriel Cognacq provided funds to buy the studio and prevent Bourdelle’s remaining works from being scattered. The museum opened in 1949, then expanded in 1961 under architect Henri Gautruche and again in 1992 by Christian de Portzamparc. It now holds more than 500 works, including marble, plaster, and bronze sculpture, alongside paintings, pastels, and fresco sketches. Among the most specific treasures are original plaster casts—especially 21 studies of Ludwig van Beethoven—along with Bourdelle’s copies of Greek and medieval works. …
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