Hôtel Ephrussi (Paris)
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Ile-de-France /
Levallois-Perret /
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Rue de Monceau, 81
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Built in 1871 by the Léon Ephrussi as the family residence in Paris, it was inhabitated by his sons, Ignace and Charles, until 1891 when they moved to a grander Parisian Hôtel at 11, Avenue d'Iéna.
A very well knows art collector and patron of the arts, Charles Ephrussi became interested in the art of the Impressionists around 1880 and, within the next few years, purchased some 40 works by Monet, Manet, Degas, Renoir, and Pissarro, among others that were exposed in the palace. He has been identified as the man in a top hat standing with his back to us in Renoir's Luncheon of the Boating Party (Phillips Collection, Washington, DC.). An account of the collection hanging in his study appears in a letter written in 1881 by the Symbolist poet Jules Laforgue (later published in La Revue blanche). But, to the distress of some of the Impressionists, he continued to buy other types of art, including pictures by his friends Gustave Moreau and Paul Baudry.
It also was at this time that he began to collect in his apartment in the palace, Japanese lacquers and netsukes, the subject of Edmund de Waal's The Hare with Amber Eyes (2010) which also devotes considerable attention to Charles' life and artistic interests.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luncheon_of_the_Boating_Party
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hare_with_Amber_Eyes
A very well knows art collector and patron of the arts, Charles Ephrussi became interested in the art of the Impressionists around 1880 and, within the next few years, purchased some 40 works by Monet, Manet, Degas, Renoir, and Pissarro, among others that were exposed in the palace. He has been identified as the man in a top hat standing with his back to us in Renoir's Luncheon of the Boating Party (Phillips Collection, Washington, DC.). An account of the collection hanging in his study appears in a letter written in 1881 by the Symbolist poet Jules Laforgue (later published in La Revue blanche). But, to the distress of some of the Impressionists, he continued to buy other types of art, including pictures by his friends Gustave Moreau and Paul Baudry.
It also was at this time that he began to collect in his apartment in the palace, Japanese lacquers and netsukes, the subject of Edmund de Waal's The Hare with Amber Eyes (2010) which also devotes considerable attention to Charles' life and artistic interests.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luncheon_of_the_Boating_Party
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hare_with_Amber_Eyes
Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ephrussi_family
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Coordinates: 48°52'48"N 2°18'53"E
- Le Louvre 2.2 km
- Saint-Germain-des-Prés 2.6 km
- Ile de la Cite 3.1 km
- Garden of Luxembourg 3.7 km
- Gare d'Austerlitz - Austerlitz Station 5.5 km
- Pitié-Salpêtrière Hospital 5.5 km
- Cité Internationale Universitaire de Paris 6.6 km
- Fort de Nogent 13 km
- Gardens of Versailles 18 km
- Château de Fontainebleau 59 km
- Collège-Lycée privé Fénelon Ste-Marie 0.2 km
- Musée Nissim-de-Camondo 0.2 km
- Parc Monceau 0.4 km
- Musée Jacquemart-André 0.6 km
- L'Hotel du Collectionneur 0.7 km
- 8th arrondissement (Elysèe) 0.8 km
- Hotel Le Bristol 0.9 km
- Boulevard Haussmann 0.9 km
- 17th arrondissement (Batignolles) 1.1 km
- Avenue des Champs-Élysées 1.3 km
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