Walking tour "Mansions of private collectors of Paris"

Walking tour to museums - former collectors' mansions in Paris
The end of the XIX century was the golden time of Paris. Paris is luxurious, where the rich urban population celebrates, has become the cultural center of Europe. Paris is the capital of a new “Beautiful Epoch,” of technological progress, of the new rich capitalist industrialists and bankers.

The Paris of the great bourgeois - "owners of factories, newspapers, steamships ...", where great deals are made and you can quickly get rich, where enterprising people from different parts of the world come. Where industrial magnates flourish, like the Schneiders, Meunier, the Rothschilds, where a lot of famous politicians, scientists, journalists, doctors.

All the new rich live in luxurious private mansions, they all have a lot of servants and love the “season”, that is, the period of universal exhibitions, visits, receptions, performances. In Paris, there are many collectors among the rich. For their mansions, they buy old luxury items, furniture of different eras, paintings, sculptures, tapestries, dishes. Many of them are patrons of museums such as the Louvre, it is very fashionable. They made their lives out of the luxury of art, it's easier to say art was their life.

To imagine this very interesting era of life in Paris, you need to see these stunning collections.

Although not all luxurious mansions have survived to this day, but I will show you some, such as we will visit with you:

The Jacquemart-André Mansion is a family-friendly couple of collectors who have traveled around the world collecting their collection and bringing art to life. The collection of the mansion has paintings by French, Italian, Dutch, Flemish, English artists, sculptures, furniture.

The Nissima de Camondo Mansion Museum. The Rothschild Museum of the East, as the De Camondo brothers, who were the richest bankers of their time, were once called. They came from Turkey, founded a bank in Paris, and constituted the elite of the wealthy society of Paris.

The Cognac-Jeux Mansion Museum is a family couple of collectors - merchants of philanthropists who created one of the first large department stores in Paris - Samaritan Woman.