Musée Nissim de Camondo

Renovations Over Time

Renovation of the kitchens and bathrooms
of the Musée Nissim de Camondo in Paris,
which showcase the operation
of a grand Parisian residence from the 1900s.

J. Paul Getty Museum

18th-Century Gaming Table

A privileged relationship
between the J. Paul Getty Museum and Galerie Kraemer,
which gifted this 18th-century gaming table featuring the coat of arms of the city of Paris,
made of embroidered velvet with gold threads, among other materials.

The Louvre Museum

Large Trumeau Mirror and Bergère

During the reorganization of the Louvre Museum’s galleries dedicated to 18th-century furniture, a large Louis XVI-era trumeau mirror was missing.
The Galerie was pleased to donate this carved, painted, and gilded wooden piece, intended to be placed above the fireplace, surrounded by beautiful furniture and objects, including a bergère created in 1788 by J-B. Boulard that belonged to Madame Élisabeth, the sister of Louis XVI. This bergère was also donated to the Museum by the Kraemer family and is currently displayed at the Château de Versailles.

The Louvre Museum

Louis XVI Vase in Sèvres Porcelain

The result of a collaboration between the sculptor Louis Simon Boizot, the painter Pierre Joseph Rosset the Elder, and the gilder Jean-Pierre Boulanger, this vase named “Jardin à Dauphins” was created in anticipation of the birth of the first son of Louis XVI and Marie-Antoinette in 1781, the second child of the royal couple and heir to the throne.
This large vase was then probably gifted in 1784 by Louis XVI to Prince Henry of Prussia, brother of Frederick II, then King of Prussia.

Château de Versailles

Set of Chairs – Louis XVI Period
Stamped by J.B. Boulard.

These chairs are part of a series commissioned in 1786 by the Garde-Meuble de la Couronne from Boulard and Séné, the leading cabinetmakers of the Louis XVI period.
They were intended to furnish the dining rooms of Versailles, Fontainebleau, or Saint-Cloud.

Sèvres – National Factory and Museum

Bronze Inkwell – Louis XVI Period

This inkwell very likely belonged to Princess Kinsky.
The Vincennes manufactory was founded in 1740 with the support of Louis XV and Madame de Pompadour. It was relocated to Sèvres in 1756 near the Château de Bellevue.

Musée Nissim de Camondo

Exhibition: “Drawing and Chiseling Bronze, Jean-Louis Prieur (1732 – 1795)”

From October 15, 2015, to January 17, 2016

The sculptor and chaser Jean-Louis Prieur (1732 – 1795) is one of the most renowned bronzers of the neoclassical period.

The exhibition featured twenty-one drawings attributed to him, sourced from the Department of Graphic Arts at the Musée des Arts Décoratifs and the Kraemer collection.
This selection includes models for bronze work from around 1770 and others for engraving, consisting of ornamental mounts and vases, from around 1783.
These sheets are representative of the evolution of Jean-Louis Prieur’s career, who became an ornamental designer in 1778.

Musée Nissim de Camondo

Exhibition of Goldsmith Drawings from the Workshop of Robert-Joseph Auguste.

From November 16, 2011, to April 1, 2012

Born in Mons in 1723, Robert-Joseph Auguste was admitted as a master in Paris in 1757 and held the title of ordinary goldsmith to the king from 1777.
Housed in the galleries of the Louvre in 1784, he handed over his business to his son Henry the following year. As nothing has survived from his supplies for the Crown, his work is better known through the pieces of goldsmith work and complete services he created for the courts of Lisbon, London, Copenhagen, Saint Petersburg, and Stockholm.

Supported by Galerie Kraemer, the Musée Nissim de Camondo exhibited goldsmith drawings that highlighted the extraordinary talent of the artist.

Musée Nissim de Camondo

Lieutenant Nissim de Camondo,
Correspondence and Campaign Journal, 1914 – 1917.

Exhibition from September 21, 2017, to March 11, 2018,
and publication of a book.

On September 5, 1917, Lieutenant Nissim de Camondo, son of Count Moïse de Camondo, went missing during an aerial mission while conducting photographic reconnaissance over the front between Germany and France.

The Kraemer family was deeply involved in the book and the subsequent exhibition, which presented the exchange of letters between Nissim and his family, particularly his father Moïse. It also included correspondence received by Moïse after his son’s disappearance.

The Louvre Museum

Saint Thomas
Georges de La Tour

1634 – 1638
Oil on canvas, 46 × 60 cm

Contribution by the Kraemer Family to the national subscription in favor of the purchase of Georges de La Tour’s painting, which was thus able to enter the national collections.The painting was discovered by Madeleine Pré in 1950 at the Château de Gallerande in the Sarthe. As reported by Jacques Thuillier, the owner “threatened to set the dogs on the first historian who rang her gate. If there was ever a sequestered painting, this was it” (Thuillier, in Le Figaro, March 22, 1988).
The saint is identified by the lance he holds, depicted in foreshortening.
It is the lance of his martyrdom according to The Golden Legend by Jacques de Voragine: the saint dies pierced by lance blows given by the pagan priests of the king of the Indies, Gondolforus.

The Louvre Museum

Tabatière of duc de Choiseul

Donation for the acquisition of the masterpiece of miniature art:
the precious and spectacular Tabatière of duc de Choiseul,
created between 1770 and 1771.

Château de Versailles

Louis XVI Period Nightstand, Stamped by Jean-Henri Riesener

Donation for the return of a Louis XVI period mahogany nightstand stamped by Jean-Henri Riesener to the bedroom of Queen Marie-Antoinette in her private apartments at the Château de Versailles.