The Museum Marmottan Monet, old hunting lodge of Christophe Edmond Kellermann, duke of Valmy, is acquired in 1882 per Jules Marmottan. His son makes his residence of it and increases it to expose to it paintings, pieces of furniture and bronzes of the Napoleonean time joined together throughout its life. With its death, in 1932, it bequeaths to the Academy of the Art schools, in addition to its library of Boulogne rich in historical documents, the whole of its collections like its private mansion transformed two years later into Museum. Devoted to the empire, the Marmottan museum was going to become with the passing of years one of the high places of Impressionism. In 1957, the Museum Marmottan Monet receives the collection of tables of Victorine Donop de Monchy, inherited his/her father Doctor George de Bellio. Of Rumanian origin, of Bellio, doctor of Manet, Monet, Pissarro, Sisley and Renoir, were one of the first amateurs of impressionist painting. Michel Monet, second wire of the painter, bequeaths in 1966 to the Academy of the Art schools the property of Giverny and to the Marmottan Museum the collection of tables inherited his father. He thus equips the Museum with the most important collection in the world of works of Claude Monet. For the presentation of this unit, the architect academician Jacques Carlu, then preserving of the Museum, built a room inspired by that of great decorations of the Orangery of Tileries. The works joined together by Henri Duhem and his wife Mary Sergeant admirably come to supplement this bottom in 1987 thanks to the generosity of their daughter Nelly Duhem. Painter and comrade in arms of the post-impressionists, Henri Duhem was also an impassioned collector gathering works of his contemporaries. In 1996, within the Museum Marmottan Monet, the Foundation Denis and Annie Rouart is created in order to carry out the wish of the bienfaitrice and to present at the public prestigious works of Berthe Morisot, Edouart Manet, Edgar Degas, Auguste Renoir and Henri Rouart… Dedicated with the Napoleonean worship at the beginning, then with the wire of time to Impressionism thanks to the extraordinary generosity of some esthètes, the Museum Marmottan Monet, is also the agent of the donation made by Mr Daniel Wildenstein in 1980, thus honouring the exceptional collection of illuminations carried out by his father.