Museum of Romantic Life

You are approaching the house at sixteen rue Chaptal, a pink-stuccoed villa that sits quietly behind a leafy, cobblestone path. This building is the former home and studio of the Dutch-French painter Ary Scheffer, who moved here in eighteen-thirty. During the height of the Romantic era, Scheffer used this space to host legendary Friday-night salons. In these rooms, you would have found the leading cultural minds of nineteenth-century Paris, including Eugène Delacroix, Frédéric Chopin, Franz Liszt, and Charles Dickens, all gathering to exchange ideas about art and creativity.