Musée national Jean-Jacques Henner, avenue de Villiers since 1924

The Musée national Jean-Jacques Henner opened in 1924 on avenue de Villiers, in a mansion of the Plaine Monceau. The architect Nicolas-Félix Escalier built it between 1876 and 1878 for the painter Roger Jourdain; Guillaume Dubufe later bought it and fitted his studio with mashrabiya screens.

In 1921 Marie Henner, widow of the artist’s nephew, bought the house from Dubufe’s heirs. In 1923 she gave it to the State with four hundred and forty paintings, furniture and objects that had belonged to the painter. Many Benner, a pupil of Henner, became its first curator.

In 1935 the architect André Arfvidson added two storeys. The museum closed in 2013 for major works, including the restoration of the winter garden, and reopened in 2016. In 2024 a crowdfunding campaign allowed it to acquire a Salomé painted in 1904.

Across three floors, nearly three hundred works trace Henner’s official career and studio life: the red rooms devoted to Alsace and the Prix de Rome, L’Alsace, elle attend, Les Naïades, the painter’s palette and desk. The winter garden hosts exhibitions and concerts.