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Musée Cognacq-Jay

The Musée Cognacq-Jay is a museum of art and decorative objects housed in the Hôtel de Donon, a sixteenth-century building in the 3rd arrondissement of Paris. Its collection, assembled between 1900 and 1925 by Théodore-Ernest Cognacq and Marie-Louise Jaÿ, founders of La Samaritaine, brings together some 1,200 pieces with an emphasis on eighteenth-century France: European and Chinese ceramics, jewellery, snuffboxes, furniture attributed to Jean-François Oeben and Roger Vandercruse Lacroix, sculptures by Jean-Antoine Houdon, Jean-Baptiste Lemoyne and Jacques-François-Joseph Saly, and paintings by Louis-Léopold Boilly, François Boucher, Canaletto, Jean-Siméon Chardin, Jean-Honoré Fragonard, Jean-Baptiste Greuze, Maurice Quentin de La Tour, Sir Thomas Lawrence, Hubert Robert, Giovanni Battista Tiepolo and Jean-Antoine Watteau. It also includes two paintings by Rembrandt and nineteenth-century works by Camille Corot, Paul Cézanne and Edgar Degas. The collection is displayed in twenty panelled rooms across four floors, in Louis XV and Louis XVI styles, in keeping with its founders' wish to show it in the intimacy of a lived-in home. The museum has been part of the Paris Musées public institution since 1 January 2013.

Things to do at Musée Cognacq-Jay: 8 missions

• Explore Eighteenth-Century Taste at the Musée Cognacq-JayTake in this temporary exhibition dedicated to eighteenth-century taste at the museum.
• Visit the Café "Au bonheur du jour" at the Musée Cognacq-JayTake a break at the museum café during your visit.
• Attend the Pastel Portrait Workshops (Family) at the Musée Cognacq-JayTake part as a family in a pastel portrait workshop at the museum.
• Take part in the La pierre noire Workshops at the Musée Cognacq-JayAttend a la pierre noire workshop scheduled at the museum.
• Take the Découvrir le musée tourTake the Découvrir le musée tour during your visit to the Musée Cognacq-Jay.
• Join the Tours: The Art of Living in the Age of Enlightenment at the Musée Cognacq-JayTake part in a guided tour on the art of living in the Age of Enlightenment.
• Visit the Musée Cognacq-JayVisit the Musée Cognacq-Jay in Paris and recognise the place on the ground.
• Use the Musée Cognacq-Jay visit appUse the museum's visit app to accompany you around the tour.

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