Galeries
Harbored in the chateau of Chantilly, the painting collection of the Condé Museum is considered the wealthiest in France, after that of the Louvre Museum. Fully comprised of ancient paintings (before 1850), these collections are exhibited in the Condé Museum Galleries, following the Duke of Aumale...
No other French museum can brag to showing three Raphael, three Fra Angelico, an Enguerrand Quarton, several Clouet, four Watteau, five Nicolas Poussin, four Greuze, five Ingres, three Delacroix, all of great quality. This exceptional gathering gives the Condé Museum its status as second museum of...
In 1886 Henri of Orléans, Duke of Aumale (1822-1897), son of King Louis-Philippe, gave the French Institute, of which he was a member, his château of Chantilly and his collections in view of creating the Condé Museum, under the express condition that the collections not be lent, nor its...