Condé Museum

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The Condé Museum is a French museum located in Chantilly Castle, located in Chantilly (Oise), in the Hauts-de-France region, 40 km north of Paris. Henri d'Orléans, Duke of Aumale, son of King Louis-Philippe I, left the castle and all its collections at the Institut de France in 1897. The museum includes rooms of this castle but also the old "large apartments" and "small apartments" arranged in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries by the princes of Condé and by the Duke of Aumale himself.

His collection of ancient paintings is one of the most important in France. It includes mainly Italian and French works: three paintings by Fra Angelico, three paintings by Raphaël, seven paintings by Nicolas Poussin, four by Antoine Watteau, and five paintings by Ingres. Its cabinet has 2,500 drawings and its library, 1,500 manuscripts of which 200 are illuminated; The most famous of them is The Most Rich Hours of the Duke of Berry.

There are also collections of prints, miniature portraits, sculptures, antiques, old photographs and decorative arts, furniture and porcelain. All these collections are visible only...