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.
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| Standing in line outside (timed tickets, etc.) |
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| Entry view |
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She did a portrait of him; that's how their relationship
began
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| Fragonard, Head of an Old Guy, 1769 |
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| Gorgeous staircase, etc. |
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| Medici "pills" |
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| Among the salons |
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| Warin bust of Richelieu, 1643; when the Cardinal was a young man |
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Atop the staircase, the enormous fresco by Tiepolo, Arrival of
Henry III at the Villa Contarini, 1745; trompe l'oeil illusionism,
etc. |
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| Guide to the atelier |
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| Thus; part of it; art history clutter |
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| Personal favorite |
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| Beautiful choir seating, marquetry, Pantelone, 1510 |
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| Mantegna, Virgin, Infant and Three Saints, 1485 |
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| Mantegna again, Ecce Homo, 1500 |
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| Workshop of Mantegna, Virgin, Infant, and Two Saints, 15th century |
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Luca Signorelli, Virgin, Infant, St. John, and Old
Guy, 1491 |
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| Nice ceilings throughout |
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| Exiting the gift shop |
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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
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1 comment:
Still hard to believe people actually lived in places like that. Of course, all it takes is money!
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