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Michel Steve, « Un monument pastiche, le musée Nissim de Camondo à Paris », Histoire de l'art, ID : 10.3406/hista.1994.2621
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A pastiche monument, the Nissim de Camondo Museum in Paris. The Paris town house built in 1911 by René Sergent for the banker Moïse de Camondo, a major collector of eighteenth-century art, was a skilful interpretation of Gabriel’s Petit Trianon, adapted for a narrow urban building plot. The Petit Trianon at Versailles was seen, at this date, as the quintessence of the spirit of French taste. It was the continuity of this taste, through history, that Camondo wished to celebrate. The architect Sergent had already earned some recognition as a talented pasticheur, particularly in New York where his palace store, commissioned by the antique merchant Duveen on Fifth Avenue, reproduced the most notable compositions of the Place Louis XV. The building erected for Moïse de Camondo received a second « commemorative » function after the First World War. The banker donated his house, as a museum of eighteenth-century art, to the French nation, in memory of his son killed during the war.