The Musée Jacquemart-André, housed in a sumptuous mansion in Paris’ most fashionable Belle Époque neighborhood, honors both a passionate engagement with art and a remarkable partnership. Together, banking heir Édouard André and his wife, artist Nellie Jacquemart, curated one of France’s most outstanding personal art collections. Their home was the setting for high-society soirées where the who’s-who of Paris socialized amid fine art from France, Italy and beyond.

Meticulous collectors and art-loving benefactors, the Jacquemart-Andrés left their home and collection to the state, creating a museum which astounds both as a Louvre in miniature – particularly rich in priceless works from the Italian Renaissance – and as an intimate insight into aristocratic life at the end of the 18th century.