The estate
The Fondation des Artistes administers a large estate (historic monuments, parks and gardens, artworks, archives) in both Paris and Nogent-sur-Marne. Among this estate, the Hôtel Salomon de Rothschild is listed as a French Historic Monument, the entire site of Nogent-sur-Marne was labeled “Regional heritage” and its park was declared a “picturesque site”. The Fondation des Artistes has also joined the ICOM (International Council of Museum) in 2016.
Paris
The head office of the Fondation des Artistes is located in the heart of the 8th arrondissement of Paris, in the Hôtel Salomon de Rothschild offered in 1922 by the baroness Adèle de Rothschild to support contemporary artists.
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The Hôtel Salomon de Rothschild is also home to a Cabinet of Curiosity, which, along with the Rotonde Balzac, is the only room of the mansion… See More
The Rotonde Balzac
Paris
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The Rotonde Balzac was built around 1890 at the end of the private garden of the HotelSalomon de Rothschild with architectural elements from the former private… See More
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The Baroness Adèle de Rothschild bequeathed part of her collections to prestigious French institutions such as the Louvre Museum, the Cluny Museum, the MAD (Museum of… See More
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Emptied from their patrimonial collections transferred to French institutions in 1922, thereception rooms of the Hôtel Salomon de Rothschild are now rented by the Fondation desArtistes… See More
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Owned by the Fondation des Artistes, the garden of the Hôtel Salomon de Rothschild is opento the public every day, with a few exceptions (check the… See More
Nogent
Inside a large 10-hectares English park, the domain of the Fondation des Artistes in Nogent-sur-Marne consists of several edifices from the 17th up to the 19th century gathered by the Smith family who bequeathed them to the French state in 1944.
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In the 17th century, at the time when the village of Nogent-sur-Marne was attracting Parisian aristocrats and bourgeois looking for homes to retire, the two horizontally-shaped… See More
16 rue Charles VII: the MABA
Nogent/Marne
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Mentioned in archives as early as 1642, the castle located 16 rue Charles VII (today the MABA) is the oldest of the domain of Nogent-sur-Marne, which… See More
The Bibliothèque Smith-Lesouëf
Nogent/Marne
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Auguste Lesouëf, a famous bibliophile and brother of Anne-Léontine Smith, died in 1906 leaving her sister and his nieces the entirety of his book collection comprised… See More
The English-style park of Nogent-sur-Marne
Nogent/Marne
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Although the garden of the 16 rue Charles VII had already been renovated in the middle of the 19th century, in 1861, the Smith family turned… See More
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The Fondation des Artistes keeps another artistic fund constituted by the artwork donations and bequests (mainly paintings, drawings, engravings and photographs, but also sculptures and art… See More
