Nissim de Camondo Museum
The Musée Nissim de Camondo is a state museum opened in 1936 in a Parisian Hôtel particulier (city palace), the Hôtel Camondo (63, rue de Monceau), which includes the complete furnishings of a classic upper-class palace from the end of the 19th century. Organizationally, it is part of the Paris Museum of Applied Arts, the Musée des Arts décoratifs .
history
Count Moïse de Camondo (1860–1935), originally from a Constantinople banker family based in Paris, inherited his parents' city palace on Rue de Monceau in 1910, which had been owned by the family since 1873. He had it demolished immediately in order to build a new building to his liking. He also wanted to house his extensive collection of furniture and works of art from the 18th century, which he had amassed over the past 20 years.
Camondo commissioned the architect René Sergent (1865–1927) to replace the old building with a new building in the style of a classic Parisian city palace, with a courtyard and garden that would be ideal for accommodating his collection and as a family home. Sergent designed a building that opens onto the garden with two wings, which was laid out by Achille Duchêne (1866–1947). Obviously, the Petit Trianon in Versailles (architect: Ange-Jacques Gabriel ) served as a model. The building was inaugurated in 1911.
Behind the classic facade, however, there is a residential building that, according to the ideas of the 19th century, strictly separates public, private and servant life. The ground floor adjoins the courtyard at ground level, but forms the basement to the garden in order to conceal the servants' rooms. A large, magnificent staircase opens up the inside of the building, the mezzanine floor, which was used to receive guests, the first floor with the private apartments and the attic with the servants' rooms.
The building is unique as a fully preserved testimony to the functionality of a classic city palace. It is particularly appealing that, in addition to the splendid representative rooms, the functional rooms such as the kitchen, laundry etc. have remained in their original state and can be viewed.
The museum is named after the founder's only son, Nissim de Camondo , who died as a fighter pilot during World War I. It opened as a museum in 1936, a year after Moïse de Camondo's death, according to his last will.
collection
The furnishings include works by artists from the Garde Meuble Royal (Royal Furniture Chamber) such as Jean-François Oeben , Jean Henri Riesener and Georges Jacob . The floors are decorated with some Savonnerie -Teppichen that in 1678 for the Grande Galerie of the Louvre had been made, and Beauvais - and Aubusson - tapestries . The paintings include works by Élisabeth Vigée-Lebrun , landscapes by Guardi and hunting scenes by Jean-Baptiste Oudry . The table silver from Orloff , which Catherine II of Russia commissioned from the silversmith Jacques-Nicolas Roettiers in 1770, and the Buffon porcelain service, made in Sèvres around 1780, with ornaments from the field of ornithology , also deserve special attention . The collection also includes busts by Jean-Antoine Houdon , bas-reliefs, Chinese vases and crystal chandeliers.
Library
bedroom
Blue salon
Secretary to Jean-Francois Oeben
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Coordinates: 48 ° 52 ′ 44.2 " N , 2 ° 18 ′ 45.5" E