History The Musée Jacquemart-André, which was once the residence of Edouard André and his wife, houses a wonderful collection of fine objects. Edouard André was an officer in the Imperial Guards and one of the most popular men at court. And in 1869 he built a handsome residence for himself in the newly laid out elegant Boulevard Haussmann. As of 1871 he became an assiduous collector of fine objets d'art. A decade later he married the well-known Parisian painter Nellie Jacquemart, whose fine eye made her an ideal companion in his search for the rare. Their collection includes tapestries, rugs, furniture and manuscripts but principally paintings and sculpture . Following the death of her husband in 1894, Nellie Jacquemart continued to collect and visited such places like India, Egypt and Greece in the search for acquisitions. Following her death in I9I4 the collection was bequeathed to the Institut de France with the proviso that this museum be created.