Musée Cognacq-Jay

Museum of the taste of the eighteenth century the city of Paris, the Cognac-Jay Museum was founded with an endowment of Ernest Cognacq (1839-1928), founder of the Samaritaine. Opened in 1929 boulevard des Capucines near the Samaritaine de Luxe, it is located since 1990 in the Hôtel Donon, in the heart of the Marais. Its collections include more than 1,000 objects: paintings, sculptures, drawings, furniture, tapestries, mounted vases, porcelain, miniatures, gold boxes and objects of virtue. The greatest European artists of the eighteenth century are represented, from Boucher to Tiepolo through Reynolds. The Cognac-Jay Museum also keeps a masterpiece by Rembrandt, The Donkey of Balaam, painted twenty years by the Dutch master.