Wallace Collection

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First created 4 Sep 2011. Version 1.0 - 7 Sep 2011. Jerry Tse. London.

The Entrance Hall with its beautiful bronze gilded staircase balustrade made in France in 1719.

The Collection
The museum has a large number of armours and weapons, including armours from other parts of the world, particularly India.

The museum has an impressive collection of French and Italian ceramic. Its collection of Serves ware is vast and varies.

The house is filled with French Rococo furniture of 18C.

It has a large collection of paintings, in particular French Rococo paintings, French Orientalism and Dutch 17C paintings, supplemented by Venetian vedute paintings.

The collection of artefacts are found mainly on the ground floor.

Armour

Weapons

Armour

Ceramic

Ceramic

Porcelain

Sevres wares were formerly produced in the royal factory near Paris. The factory produced porcelain for the nobility of Europe.

Porcelain

Furniture

Clocks

The Great Gallery was specially built to display the familys collection.

French Paintings

French Paintings

French Paintings

French Paintings

French Paintings

French Paintings

French Paintings

French Paintings

French Paintings

French Paintings

Elizabeth Vigee-Lebrun was the best female portrait painter of her times. She painted over 30 portraits of Marie Antoinette and her family.

French Paintings

French Paintings

French Paintings

French Paintings

French Revolution

Dutch Painting
A masterpiece by Frans Hals.

Dutch Painting

Dutch Painting

Dutch Painting

Dutch Painting

Dutch Painting

Dutch Painting

Dutch Painting
Huysum is most well-known for his still life of flower paintings.

English Paintings

Italian Paintings

Italian Paintings

History & Fountain

The building was the family home of Marquess of Hertford. In 1897, Lady Wallace, who was French, died and left the collection and the house to the nation. The Wallace Collection was opened to the public as a national museum in 1990. The family had a long association with France. The 3rd Marquess wife settled in Paris, in 1802. The 4th Marquess moved more or less permanently to Paris in 1838. The last heir Sir Richard Wallace grew up and lived in Paris.

In 1872, it was Richard Wallace who donated some 50 drinking fountains to Paris, after his experience of the 1870 siege of Paris by the Prussian army. The fountains are common sights of Paris today.

The peaceful caf-restaurant of the museum.

The End

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Music Parisienne Walkway composed by Gary Moore, from the album Guitar Moods.