MUSÉE JACQUEMART-ANDRÉ

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Essentials about the Musée Jacquemart-André in brief

When it comes to art museums, you’re spoiled for choice in Paris. If you want to see one of the lesser known and smaller, but still very fine art exhibitions, you should head to the Musée Jacquemart-André. The museum is located in a beautiful city palace from the time of the Second Empire and shows the art collection that the couple Édouard André and Nélie Jacquemart gathered at the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th century.

The collections of the Musée Jacquemart-André

At the time, art collector Édouard André and his wife Nélie Jacquemart, a renowned portraitist, traveled throughout Europe and the Orient to acquire valuable rarities in the field of art and mobliar. Thus, the collection of the couple with works by Canaletto, Rembrandt van Rijn, Anthony van Dyck, Frank Hals, Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, Sandro Boticelli and many other great masters is one of the most valuable art collections in all of France.

On the first floor of the house works of the Flemish and German schools, detached frescoes, refined furniture and carpet work are exhibited. The second floor is reserved for the Florentine and Venetian Renaissance, of which Nélie Jacquemart was an enthusiastic follower. In addition to the important works of art, the Musée Jacquemart-André offers its visitors the exceptional opportunity to discover the inhabited parts of a 19th-century town palace, such as the state apartments, the staircase exit, the winter garden, but also the private apartments.