The Jacquemart-André Museum Gets a Facelift
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After a year of restoration work, the Parisian mansion, witness to a sumptuous epoch and home to an exceptional collection of works of art, reopens its doors. Giambattista Tiepolo (1696-1770), La Renommée annonçant dans les airs l'arrivée du roi Henri III (Fame Announcing the Arrival of King Henri III).© Culturespaces / Nicolas Héron Heir to a family of Protestant bankers and a close associate of Napoleon III, Édouard André (1833-1894) joined the Emperor's urban planning project for the capital. In 1868, on the newly laid-out boulevard Haussmann—then called Beaujon—in the heart of the new Parc Monceau neighborhood, a symbol of the Second Empire's wealth, he
