Public rates

Group tour : 14,50 €/adult - 9,50 €/child (-18years) - 7,50 €/pupil
1 tour guide for 20/35 ppl.
School rate valid for booking of 2 consecutive visits for 1 hour.

Private tour (individuals) : 215,00 €/gp + 14,50 €/adult - 9,50 €/child (-18years) - 7,50 €/pupil
1 dedicated tour guide.

Can one imagine that in the middle of Boulevard Haussmann, a stone’s throw from Monceau Park, is a very special private mansion which contains the largest private art collection in Paris? This museum owes its existence to the banker Edouard Andre and the painter Nelie Jacquemart, a couple with a passion for 18th century art who, since their marriage in 1881, did not stop travelling in Europe and the East in order to gather paintings and other kinds of objects. 16 rooms are currently accessible to the public, preserved as when their owners lived there.

This museum offers a double interest: It is an immense work of art itself, containing hundreds of collectors’ items. At the entrance, you are welcomed by two of Boucher’s powerful paintings: Venus Asleep and The Toilet of Venus. Your guide will then take you across the large living room to appreciate its marble busts, before visiting several small rooms (the chamber, the boudoir, the music room, etc) where the most eclectic elements are gathered: English paintings (neglected in France), a Louis XVth chest, canvases of Rembrandt and other Flemish Masters. After the smoking-room, you will go up to the first floor in order to discover Nelie’s workshop and its collection of Italian sculptures.

Free access to temporary exhibition The Twilight of Pharaohs from 23 March to 23 July 2012.

Informations Jacquemart Andre Museum

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