A grand home for Paris’s finest private collection
The magnificent Musée Jacquemart-André was built by Edouard André and his wife, the painter Nélie Jacquemart, both avid art collectors, in the new Paris being laid out by Baron Haussmann towards the end of the 19th century. This private mansion offers visitors a unique opportunity to explore a wealthy 19th century home composed of ceremonial rooms, monumental stairways, a winter garden, Italian museum and private apartments.
The varied collection brings together some of the most remarkable works of art that the couple had amassed in the course of their many journeys: works from the Italian Renaissance, French painting from the 18th century, 17th century Flemish painting and a rich array of furniture and tapestries, not to mention Greek and Roman antiquities and Egyptian artefacts. Artists include Donatello, Botticelli, Perugino, Bellini, Élisabeth-Louise Vigée Le Brun, Jacques-Louis David, Thomas Gainsborough and Jean-Honoré Fragonard. The winter garden, an expansive, marble-paved indoor garden room is filled with plants and antique sculptures that also includes the building's magnificent staircase, adorned with a large fresco painted by Giambattista Tiepolo.
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