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Musée Condé
A museum in a fairy-tale castle by a lake near Paris, with one of the best collections of old master paintings in France, rare illuminated manuscripts and Raphael's Three Graces.
History of the museum
The Duke of Aumale, a son of the last French king, collected art and books during his exile in England and, when he returned, put them in the Château de Chantilly. He gave the castle and collection to the Institut de France in 1886, with the condition that nothing be changed. It opened to the public in 1898, and the paintings still hang as he arranged them.
Top pieces
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Three Graces Raphael, 1500
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Portrait of Simonetta Vespucci Piero di Cosimo, 1480
In our gallery from here (8)
The Duel After the MasqueradeJean-Léon Gérôme · 1857
Massacre of the InnocentsNicolas Poussin · 1620
Antiochus and StratoniceJean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres · 1840
Pastoral ConcertJean-Baptiste Camille Corot · 1857
The ChordJean-Antoine Watteau · 1715
Pastoral PleasureJean-Antoine Watteau · 1714
The Worried LoverJean-Antoine Watteau · 1715
Cupid DisarmedJean-Antoine Watteau · 1715