Musée d’Ennery

The Musée d’Ennery showcases Europe’s fascination with the Far East in the late 19th century. Adolphe Philippe d’Ennery (1811-1899), a journalist and writer, and his wife, Clémence d’Ennery (1823-1898), who was passionate about Chinese and Japanese art, built an extensive collection of Asian art, which they bequeathed to the government in 1894. These works, netsuke, lacquer boxes, and porcelain from China and Japan, and exotic trinkets purchased from important art dealers of the time, including Tadamasa Hayashi (1853-1906) and Samuel Bing (1838-1905), are displayed on furniture and inside specially commissioned inlaid cabinets, transforming the home into a museum.