Eugène-Delacroix National Museum

In 1857 the painter Eugène Delacroix, ageing and often ill, took an apartment with a garden studio on the quiet Place de Furstenberg in Paris, mainly to be near the church of Saint-Sulpice, where he was finishing the murals that would be his last great work. He died here in 1863.

The rooms are small, and that is the point. This is the flat where France's leading Romantic painter actually lived and worked, kept as a house-museum since 1932 and now cared for by the Louvre. You see his studio built out in the garden, his palette and letters, sketches and small canvases, along with mementoes of friends like the composer Chopin, whose portrait he painted.

The garden he tended survives too, replanted much as he left it, a green pause a few steps from the traffic of Saint-Germain.