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| Location | Paris,France |
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| Coordinates | 48°52′32″N2°18′38″E / 48.87543°N 2.31051°E /48.87543; 2.31051 |
TheMusée Jacquemart-André (French pronunciation:[myzeʒakmaʁɑ̃dʁe],lit. 'Jacquemart-André Museum') is a privatemuseum located at 158Boulevard Haussmann in the8th arrondissement ofParis. The museum was created from the private home ofÉdouard André (1833–1894) andNélie Jacquemart (1841–1912) to display the art they collected during their lives.[1][2]
Édouard André, the scion of aProtestant banking family, devoted his considerable fortune to buying works of art. He then exhibited them in his new mansion built in 1869 by the architectHenri Parent, and completed in 1875.
He married a well-known society painter, Nélie Jacquemart, who had painted his portrait 10 years earlier. Every year, the couple would travel in Italy, amassing one of the finest collections of Italian art in France. When Edouard André died, Nélie Jacquemart completed the decoration of the Italian Museum and travelled in the Orient to add more precious works to the collection. Faithful to the plan agreed with her husband, she bequeathed the mansion and its collections to theInstitut de France as a museum, and it opened to the public in 1913.
The museum is divided into five major parts:
the State Rooms were designed by the Andrés for their most formal receptions. They reflect their fascination for the French school of painting and 18th-century decorative art.
The Andrés would receive their business relations in a series of smaller, more informal salons. These were decorated in a refined style.
The Winter Garden was created by architectHenri Parent, who was seeking to surpassCharles Garnier, the builder of the then newOpéra Garnier.[3]
the Sculpture Gallery houses collections of 15th- and 16th-century Italian sculpture, with masterpieces byFrancesco Laurana,Donatello,Luca Della Robbia and others. TheFlorentine Gallery is both a place of worship, containing works on religious themes — choir stalls, reredos and funerary monuments —; and a picture gallery focusing on the Florentine school, with works byBotticelli,Francesco Botticini andPerugino, andUcello's celebratedSt George and the Dragon. TheVenetian Gallery attests to the Andrés' love of 15th-century Venetian artists. Dominated by acoffer ceiling attributed toMocetto, paintings byMantegna,Bellini orCarpaccio recreate the typical setting of aVenetian Palazzo.
The Andrés' private apartments occupy part of the mansion's ground floor.
The museum features works byÉlisabeth-Louise Vigée Le Brun,Bellini,Francesco Botticini,Luca Signorelli,Cima da Conegliano,Pietro Perugino,Neri di Bicci,Vittore Crivelli,Luca della Robbia,Paolo Uccello,Canaletto,Jean-Marc Nattier,Alfred Boucher,Quentin Massys,Rembrandt,Anthony van Dyck,Frans Hals,Giovanni Battista Tiepolo,Jacques-Louis David,Franz Xaver Winterhalter,Thomas Lawrence,Joshua Reynolds,Thomas Gainsborough,Gian Lorenzo Bernini,Sandro Botticelli,Andrea Mantegna,Jean-Honoré Fragonard, andJean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin.
The forecourt and a salon were used during filming of the 1958 filmGigi. The final banquet of the 2002 filmThe Count of Monte Cristo by Kevin Reynolds was shot in a replica of the Grand Salon and the Honour Staircase of the Musée Jacquemart-André, but without the dividing wall in-between.
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