Musee Cognacq Jay
The Musee Cognacq Jay is a museum located in the Hotel Donon in the 3rd arrondissement at 8 rue Elzevir, Paris, France. It is open daily except Monday; admission is free.
The museum’s collection was formed between 1900-1925 by Theodore-Ernest Cognacq (1839-1928) and his wife Marie Louise Jay (1838-1925), founders of La Samaritaine department store. At his death, Cognacq gave the collection to the City of Paris, which in 1929 inaugurated the Musee Cognacq-Jay at 25 boulevard des Capucines. In 1990 it was moved to the Hotel Donon (circa 1575) in the Marais, where the collection is displayed in 20 paneled rooms (four floors) in the styles of Louis XV and Louis XVI.
The museum contains an exceptional collection of fine art and decorative items, about 1200 items in total, with an emphasis on 18th century France, ranging from European and Chinese ceramics, jewels, and snuffboxes, to paintings by Louis-Leopold Boilly, François Boucher, Canaletto, Jean-Simeon Chardin, Jean-Honore Fragonard, Jean-Baptiste Greuze, Maurice Quentin de La Tour, Sir Thomas Lawrence, Hubert Robert, Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, and Jean-Antoine Watteau; sculpture by Jean-Antoine Houdon, Jean-Baptiste Lemoyne, and Jacques-François-Joseph Saly; and fine furniture attributed to Jean-François Oeben and Roger Van der Cruse. 17th century is also represented, notably with two paintings by Rembrandt while 19th century is represented with works by Camille Corot, Paul Cezanne and also Edgar Degas. (Text Source: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia)
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