France - Paris day 06 - Jacquemart-Andre Mansion and Museum

 The Jacquemart-Andre mansion and museum is a fantastic place to see. Its near the Arc de Triomphe.

It was originally built in 1875 and house the art collected by him and his wife during their yearly trips to Italy. She was a popular painter of persons of Paris society.

The house has two driveways into it which travel under one wing or the other. That way you could have continuous traffic.

Here is the back of the house.

Thier rooms are left just about as they were when Mrs Jacquemart died in 1913. They are lavish and tasteful.

The staircase was done by the runner up of the staircase for the Paris Opera house. It is also built so that people going up and down only meet at the top and the first part of the bottom.

This is the upper area of the music room and is the start of their special collections.

This is one of two rooms with glorious artwork collected by these two persons.

Saint George defeating a dragon. In most art and sculpture the dragon is no bigger than George's thigh but here it is the size of his horse. Done by Paolo Uccello in 1440.

Wonderfully inlaid wood church benches.

Done by La Peruguin in 1470

It is magnificent to see these items that were collected by these two. They only brought special friends to see the items in these two rooms.

A Botticelli done in 1505.

There is a self portrait of Nelie Jacquemart on the left.