Musée Nissim de Camondo

The Musée Nissim de Camondo is a historic house museum of French decorative arts located in the Hôtel Moïse de Camondo at 63, rue de Monceau, on the edge of Parc Monceau in the 8th arrondissement of Paris, France. The museum houses "a spectacular collection of French decorative art from the second half of the 18th century. ... Aubusson tapestries, canvases by Élisabeth Vigée-Lebrun or items that once belonged to Marie-Antoinette. Also on display, a collection of Sèvres porcelain and furniture by cabinetmakers Riesener and Oeben". History Count Moïse de Camondo The mansion was built from 1911 to 1914 for Count Moïse de Camondo , a French banker and member of the Sephardic Jewish Camondo family , to display his collection of eighteenth-century French furniture and art objects. It was designed by the architect René Sergent and patterned on the Petit Trianon at Versailles , but with modern conveniences. Moïse de Camondo died in 1935 and bequeathed the house and its collections to Les Arts Décoratifs in honour of his son, Nissim de Camondo , who had been killed in action during World War I .