Musée Lambinet

The Musée Lambinet is a municipal museum in Versailles telling the history of the town. Since 1932, it has been housed in the hôtel Lambinet, a hôtel particulier designed by Élie Blanchard, built in the second half of the 18th century by a part of the Clagny lake (drained in 1837) and left to the town of Versailles by the heirs of Victor Lambinet (a cousin of the painter Émile Lambinet) in 1929. It has been classed as a monument historique since 1944. Its garden façade has a sculpted pediment representing an allegorical figure of architecture. History This private mansion was built for Joseph-Barnabé Porchon in 1751 on a plot of the Clagny pond which dried up in 1737. It is the work of architect Elie Blanchard. Coming from the East of France, the Lambinet family cut clothes and traded in sheets in Versailles. Victor Lambinet is the son of Jean-François Lambinet, mayor of the city in 1848. Former lawyer, then judge at the court of Versailles, he bought the Hôtel des Porchon in 1852. He occupied it in 1859, with his son and with the latter's wife, Nathalie Chevassus, using. Collection The museum has 35 rooms, some with period decor, in which collections on the town's history are displayed, such as furniture, ceramics and objets d'art as well as historic plans of the town and paintings, sculptures and other works of art by artists from the town (notably works by Jean-Antoine Houdon ).