Musée Cognacq-Jay
The Musée Cognacq-Jay is inseparable from the story of Ernest Cognacq and Marie-Louise Jaÿ. Their collection—built up between 1900 and 1925—came from their life in commerce, as the founders of La Samaritaine, and after Cognacq died they gave it to the City of Paris. In 1929, the city inaugurated a museum for it at 25 boulevard des Capucines, in a building created specifically for the couple’s unusual aim: to show the works in the intimacy of a home, “without the conventions of a museum.” That plan shifted in 1990, when the City moved the collection to the Hôtel Donon, a building dating to around 1575 in the Marais. Today the museum presents the collection across twenty paneled rooms over four floors, in styles of Louis XV and Louis XVI. With about 1,200 items, it favors 18th-century France—ceramics, jewels, and snuffboxes—and includes major names such as Chardin, Watteau, and Fragonard, plus sculptures by Houdon and Lemoyne. …
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