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Cemetery · Trocadéro (16th) · 16e arrondissement

Passy Cemetery

The buildingStill standing
Getting inWalk straight in
What's there nowStill the same

Open to visitors during cemetery hours, free of charge. It is small, terraced and walled, immediately beside the place du Trocadéro.

The small, wealthy cemetery beside the Trocadéro where Édouard Manet is buried in the family tomb — together with his brother Eugène and Eugène's wife, the painter Berthe Morisot.

Address
2 rue du Commandant-Schloesing, 75016 Paris
Years
Opened in 1820
IllustrationColour photorealistic view of Passy Cemetery beneath a bright blue sky

The same present-day setting in bright colour.

Editorial illustration

The place, briefly

Passy is one of the smallest and most exclusive of the Paris cemeteries: walled, raised above the street, and set immediately beside the place du Trocadéro with the Eiffel Tower directly across the river. It served the wealthy sixteenth arrondissement and its residents reflect that.

The tomb that matters here holds three painters' worth of history in one family. Édouard Manet was buried in the family grave after his death in 1883. His younger brother Eugène Manet lies there too — and so does Eugène's wife, Berthe Morisot, who died in 1895.

The relationship is worth spelling out, because it is often garbled. Morisot met Édouard Manet in 1868 while she was copying at the Louvre; she modelled for several of his most striking paintings; and in 1874 she married his brother. She was a founding member of the independent exhibitions that year and one of the very few women in the group, and she was a serious painter throughout — not, as she is still sometimes described, an appendage to the Manet family. She is buried with them all the same.

The cemetery is open to the public and free. It is small enough to walk in a quarter of an hour.

Key facts

Address
2 rue du Commandant-Schloesing, 16th arrondissement
Opened
1820
Édouard Manet
Buried here after his death in 1883
Berthe Morisot
Buried in the same family tomb, with her husband Eugène Manet
Setting
Beside the place du Trocadéro, facing the Eiffel Tower
Access
Free, during cemetery opening hours

In images

The walled, terraced cemetery beside the Trocadéro as it appears today.Editorial illustration
The same present-day setting in bright colour.Editorial illustration
The Manet family tomb, reconstructed from a factual photographic reference. The visitor is generated and does not reproduce a person in the source.Editorial illustration
Inside Passy Cemetery, looking along its close-set monuments and rotunda.Editorial illustration
A tree-lined cemetery avenue with the Eiffel Tower visible beyond the walls.Editorial illustration
The cemetery's compact terraced levels and connecting stone steps.Editorial illustration
A sunlit clearing among Passy's sculpted family monuments.Editorial illustration

Timeline

  1. 1820

    The cemetery opens.

  2. 1883

    Édouard Manet is buried in the family tomb.

  3. 1895

    Berthe Morisot is buried with her husband Eugène Manet.

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Questions before you go

Where is Édouard Manet buried?

In the family tomb at Passy Cemetery, 2 rue du Commandant-Schloesing in the 16th arrondissement.

Are Manet and Morisot buried together?

Yes. Berthe Morisot married Édouard Manet's brother Eugène in 1874, and she is buried in the same family tomb as both of them.

Can you visit Passy Cemetery?

Yes — it is open to the public during cemetery hours and free to enter. It is small and takes about fifteen minutes to walk.

People buried here

Illustrated portrait of Édouard Manet

Édouard Manet

French · Painter

Manet is buried in the family tomb at Passy Cemetery, which also holds his brother Eugene Manet and Eugene's wife, the painter Berthe Morisot.

Illustrated portrait of Berthe Morisot

Berthe Morisot

French · Painter

Morisot is buried in the Manet family tomb at Passy Cemetery with her husband Eugene Manet and her brother-in-law Edouard Manet.

Within walking distance

Colour photorealistic view of 16 rue Benjamin-Franklin beneath a bright blue sky

House · Passy (16th)

16 rue Benjamin-Franklin

The Morisot family house in Passy where a studio was built in the garden for Berthe and her sister Edma — an unusually serious commitment to two daughters' painting for a bourgeois family of the 1860s.

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Colour photorealistic view of 12 rue Benjamin-Franklin beneath a bright blue sky

Apartment · Passy (16th)

12 rue Benjamin-Franklin

One of the Morisot family's Passy addresses during the years when Berthe and Edma Morisot were training as painters, a few doors from the house where their garden studio was built.

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Color present-day view of 4 villa Eugène-Manuel

House · Passy (16th)

4 villa Eugène-Manuel

The Passy house with a large studio window that Marc Chagall took in the 1930s — twenty years and a world away from the unheated rotunda at La Ruche.

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The same ivy-covered wooden chalet in colour, warm timber walls and green shutters in a leafy garden

House · Passy

57 rue Cortambert

The wooden Swiss-style chalet in Passy, since demolished, where Colette lived through her second marriage and the birth of her daughter.

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References

References

The sources below include histories, archival materials, scholarly research, and official records that informed this page. They document Passy Cemetery, the people connected to it, and its place in Paris.

  1. 1The Passy Cemetery: Manet, Morisot and Marie Bashkirtseff

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    American Girls Art Club in Paris
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    Web source consulted for documented facts and historical context presented on the Passy Cemetery page.

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  2. 2Édouard Manet (1832–1883) — The Metropolitan Museum of Art

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    The Metropolitan Museum of Art
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    Web source consulted for documented facts and historical context presented on the Passy Cemetery page.

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  3. 3Berthe Morisot (1841–1895)

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    Musée d'Orsay
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    Web source consulted for documented facts and historical context presented on the Passy Cemetery page.

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  1. 4Berthe Morisot — Artist Profile

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    National Museum of Women in the Arts
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    Web source consulted for documented facts and historical context presented on the Passy Cemetery page.

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  2. 5Cimetière de Passy

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    Ville de Paris
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    Web source consulted for documented facts and historical context presented on the Passy Cemetery page.

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