Musée Jacquemart-André

The Musée Jacquemart-André is a 19th-century private mansion turned museum at 158 Boulevard Haussmann in Paris's 8th arrondissement, showing the art collection of Édouard André and Nélie Jacquemart, from Botticelli and Uccello to French 18th-century painting. A full ticket with the current exhibition costs about €19, and it suits visitors who want a house museum with Italian Renaissance art and a café.

Édouard André, Nélie Jacquemart and their mansion

The banker and collector Édouard André commissioned the mansion from the architect Henri Parent. It was built between 1869 and 1875, set back from the boulevard behind a courtyard. André married the society portrait painter Nélie Jacquemart, and the couple spent years travelling and buying paintings, sculpture and furniture. After Édouard's death, Nélie continued to collect. When she died in 1912 she left the house and contents to the Institut de France, and President Raymond Poincaré opened the museum on 8 December 1913.

Grand Salon, winter garden and Rembrandt

The rooms show the couple's way of life as well as their art: the Grand Salon, the music room, a winter garden with a double staircase and private apartments. They hold French 18th-century painting and furniture, Dutch and Flemish pictures including Rembrandt and Van Dyck, and Tiepolo frescoes. Upstairs, the Italian rooms hold the Renaissance paintings and sculpture the couple bought in Florence and Venice: Uccello's Saint George and the Dragon, Botticelli, Mantegna, Bellini and sculpture by Donatello.

The museum closed in 2023 for a year-long renovation funded by the Institut de France and reopened on 6 September 2024.

Five parts of the house and the Italian Museum

The museum is laid out in five parts: the state apartments, the informal apartments, the winter garden, the Italian Museum and the private apartments. Nélie Jacquemart finished decorating the Italian Museum after Édouard's death and travelled to the East to buy more pieces. The forecourt and a salon appear in the 1958 film Gigi, and a replica of the Grand Salon was built for the 2002 film The Count of Monte Cristo. Fragonard and Chardin are among the French 18th-century painters on the walls.