Musée Jacquemart-André
Gilded private mansion turned museum, home to one of the finest Italian Renaissance collections outside Italy.
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This guide to the Musée Jacquemart-André in Paris follows an unlikely marriage: a working portrait painter named Nélie Jacquemart, hired in 1872 to paint the banker Édouard André, and married to him nine years later. Together they spent thirteen years hunting Italian Renaissance art across Italy, filling their Boulevard Haussmann mansion with Mantegna, Bellini and Botticelli. When Édouard died in 1894, his family went to court to reclaim the estate, and Nélie fought them. Listen for how a courtroom battle shaped the collection you're walking through.
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