Monday, October 4, 2021

Musee Jacquemart Andre: Botticelli In Paris

The Musee Jacquemart Andre is a small formerly independent museum, originally the home of an interesting Paris couple, Eduard Andre and Nelie Jacquemart. She was a painter, he the scion of an enormous banking fortune. Together they shared a love of art, particularly Italian, and pretty much devoted themselves to their mansion on Boulevard Haussmann and filling it with the treasures they acquired on annual trips beyond the Alps. They left the mansion and its contents to the Institute of France. The museum this fall is doing a special exhibition on "Botticelli: Artist and Designer," and, Botticelli being one of our two or three favorite painters, we had to go. The Musee Jacquemart Andre is worth a post by itself. I'll do the Botticelli exhibit separately.

Standing in line outside (timed tickets, etc.)

Entry view

She did a portrait of him; that's how their relationship
began

Fragonard, Head of an Old Guy, 1769

Gorgeous staircase, etc.



Medici "pills"

Among the salons

Warin bust of Richelieu, 1643; when the Cardinal was a young man 


Atop the staircase, the enormous fresco by Tiepolo, Arrival of
Henry III at the Villa Contarini
, 1745; trompe l'oeil illusionism,
etc.

Guide to the atelier

Thus; part of it; art history clutter

Personal favorite

Beautiful choir seating, marquetry, Pantelone, 1510

Mantegna, Virgin, Infant and Three Saints, 1485

Mantegna again, Ecce Homo, 1500

Workshop of Mantegna, Virgin, Infant, and Two Saints, 15th century

Luca Signorelli, Virgin, Infant, St. John, and Old
Guy
, 1491

Nice ceilings throughout

Exiting the gift shop















































































































































































































Sadly, for me, the one item in the regular collection I really wanted
to see, Uccello's St. George and the Dragon, 1430, was out on loan,
probably in order to get one of the Botticellis; this from the museum's
website

1 comment:

Tawana said...

Still hard to believe people actually lived in places like that. Of course, all it takes is money!