Le musée Jacqeumart-André. Livre guide. - Sainte-Fare-Garnot, Pierre-Nicolas 1950-; Monnier, Virginie (Paris CulturEspaces, 2006)
Édouard François André was a French banker, politician, soldier, and art collector. He was the husband of Nélie Jacquemart-André, the society painter. In firm support of Napoleon III and sensitive to Saint-Simonian ideas, the Andre family was involved in financing the modernization of France and large companies of the imperial regime After the fall of the Second Empire he was disappointed by politics, and decided to devote himself exclusively to his collections of paintings, furniture, and art objects. In 1868, he sought the architect Henri Parent to design a mansion of grand proportions on a plot of 5,700 m2 in Paris for 1.5 million francs, now called the Musée Jacquemart-André, where their art collection is now preserved.
Keywords: André, Édouard -- 1833-1894; Jacquemart, Nélie Barbe Hyacinthe -- 1841-1912; 18th Century (1701-1800); 19th Century (1801-1900); Museum; Fine art; Architecture; Collecting; Paris (France)