Musée Nissim de Camondo

The Musée Nissim de Camondo is opened in 1936, state museum in a Parisian nobleman's palace, the Hôtel Camondo (63, rue de Monceau ), which includes the complete furnishing of a classic upper-class household palace from the 19th century. Organizationally, it is part of the Paris Museum of Decorative Arts, the Musée des Arts Décoratifs.

History

Count Moïse de Camondo (1860-1935), originally an Opel -based in Constantinople, the Paris-based banking family entstammend, inherited in 1910, the manor of his parents in the Rue de Monceau, which had since 1873 family owned. He had to tear it immediately to construct a new building to his taste. He also wanted his extensive collection of furniture and works of art of the 18th century house, which he had collected over the past 20 years.

Camondo commissioned the architect René Sergent (1865-1927), ' put in place of the old building a new building in the style of a classic Parisian town house, with a courtyard and garden, that would be ideal for the accommodation of his collection and as a family apartment. Sergent designed a building that opens with two wings to the garden, which was created by Achille Duchêne ( 1866-1947 ). Highly visible, the Petit Trianon at Versailles (architect Ange-Jacques Gabriel ) has served as a model. The building was inaugurated in 1911.

Behind the classic facade, however, lies a residential house, the public, the private life and the servants separates strictly in accordance with the ideas of the 19th century another. The ground floor includes at ground level to the court to, but forms the basement to the garden, so as to conceal the servants' rooms. A big, magnificent staircase provides access to the interior of the building, the first floor, which served the reception of guests, the first floor with private rooms and the attic with the servants' rooms.

The building is unique as fully preserved evidence of the functioning of a classic town house '. It is particularly attractive, in addition to the magnificent state rooms and the function rooms such as kitchen, laundry, etc. remain in their original state and can be visited.

The museum is named after the only son of the founder, Nissim de Camondo, who died in the First World War as a fighter pilot. It was built in 1936, opened a year after the death of Moïse de Camondo, according to his last will, as a museum.

The Collection

The furniture of the house includes works by artists of the Garde Meuble Royal ( Royal furniture Chamber) as Jean- François Oeben, Jean Henri Riesener and Georges Jacob. On the walls hang Savonnerie carpets that had been made ​​in 1678 for the Grande Galerie of the Louvre, as well as Beauvais and Aubusson rugs. Among the paintings are works by Élisabeth Vigée- Lebrun, landscapes by Guardi and hunting scenes by Jean -Baptiste Oudry. Special attention deserves the silverware Orloff, who had given Catherine II of Russia at the silversmith Jacques -Nicolas Roëttiers 1770 in order, and the Buffon porcelain service, which had been prepared in Sèvres in 1780, with ornaments in the field of ornithology. The collection also includes busts of Jean -Antoine Houdon, Bas- reliefs, Chinese vases and crystal chandeliers.

Gallery

The bedroom

The Blue Salon

Secretary of Jean -Francois Oeben

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