Musée Cognacq-Jay

The Musée Cognacq-Jay houses the collection of eighteenth-century art amassed between 1900 and 1927 by Ernest Cognacq, founder of La Samaritaine department stores, and his wife Marie-Louise Jaÿ. Upon his death in 1928, Ernest Cognacq bequeathed these artworks to the City of Paris in order that his collection, which offers a unique artistic perspective on the Age of Enlight...