Mohamed Mahmoud Khalil & His Wife Museum, Giza

Born in Cairo in 1877 and died in Paris on 31st December 1953 * Travelled to Paris in 1897 to study law * Married French woman Ms Emiline Lock in 1903 * The couple returned to Egypt and stayed in his palace in Giza in 1918 * Together with Prince Youssef Kamal he established the Society of Lovers of Fine Arts in 1924 * Chaired the Society of Lovers of Fine Arts in 1925 * He was the commissaire-general of the Egyptian Pavilion at the international exhibition of art organised in Paris in 1937 * Appointed Minister of Agriculture in the Al Wafd cabinet in 1937

The museum’s assets include masterpieces of great artists who extensively contributed to the movements of fine art in Europe in general and France in particular in the 19th century. However, the majority of the museum’s 208 works feature the impressionist school, which laid the ground for the fine art movement in the 20th century. The great artists represented among the assets of Mohammed Mahmoud Khalil and his Wife Museum include Paul Gauguin, Auguste Renoir, Vincent van Gogh, Claude Monet, John Jongkind and Charles Francois Daubigny. The museum’s assets also include masterpieces of oriental artists such as Eugene Fromentin.