Musée Jacquemart-André
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| Location | Paris, France |
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| Coordinates | 48°52′32″N 2°18′38″E / 48.87543°N 2.31051°E |
The Musée Jacquemart-André (English: Jacquemart-André Museum) is a private museum located at 158 Boulevard Haussmann in the 8th arrondissement of Paris. The museum was created from the private home of Édouard André (1833–1894) and Nélie Jacquemart (1841–1912) to display the art they collected during their lives.[1][2]
History
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 the Institut de France as a museum, and it opened to the public in 1913.
Divisions
The museum is divided into five major parts:
The State Apartments: 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 informal Apartments: 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: the Winter Garden was created by architect
The Italian museum: the Sculpture Gallery houses collections of 15th- and 16th-century Italian sculpture, with masterpieces by
The Private Apartments: the Andrés' private apartments occupy part of the mansion's ground floor.
Collection
The museum features works by
In popular culture
The forecourt and a salon were used during filming of the 1958 film Gigi. The final banquet of the 2002 film The 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.
See also
References
- ^ "Le musée Jacquemart-André ferme bientôt ses portes pour un an de travaux". www.sortiraparis.com (in French). Retrieved 2023-03-14.
- ^ Porée, Marc. "Au musée Jacquemart-André, explorer notre part d'ombre avec Füssli". The Conversation. Retrieved 2023-03-14.
- ^ "Jacquemart André Museum – The winter garden an architectural masterpiece."
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External links
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