Musée Jacquemart-André

The Musée Jacquemart-André in Paris's 8th arrondissement houses a major art collection in an elegant mansion dating from the Second Empire. The building was constructed between 1869 and 1875 to plans by Henri Parent and originally housed the private collection of the couple Édouard André and Nélie Jacquemart. The two collected avidly from the 1860s onward, and Édouard André had already been acquiring Italian Renaissance art before their marriage. After his death in 1894, Nélie Jacquemart continued to expand the holdings, including through the purchase of the Abbey of Chaalis. When she died in 1912, the ensemble passed to the Institut de France, which opened it as a museum in 1913. Today, visitors can admire works by Italian Renaissance masters such as Botticelli and Mantegna, Flemish artists such as Rembrandt and Van Dyck, and 18th-century French painters such as Fragonard and Chardin. In addition to its permanent collection, the museum regularly presents temporary exhibitions on a variety of themes in the visual arts.