The – in English, the Condé Museum – is a French museum located inside the

Château de Chantilly The Château de Chantilly () is a historic French château located in the town of Chantilly, Oise, about 50 kilometres (30 miles) north of Paris. The site comprises two attached buildings: the Petit Château, built around 1560 for Anne de Montmore ...

in Chantilly,

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, 40 km north of

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. In 1897, Henri d'Orléans, Duke of Aumale, son of

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, bequeathed the château and its collections to the

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. It included rooms remodeled as museum spaces and those left as residential quarters in the styles of the 18th and 19th centuries.

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The collection of old master paintings is among the most important in France. It consists predominantly of Italian and French works and includes three paintings by Fra Angelico, three by

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, five by

Nicolas Poussin Nicolas Poussin (, , ; June 1594 – 19 November 1665) was a French painter who was a leading painter of the classical French Baroque style, although he spent most of his working life in Rome. Most of his works were on religious and mythologic ...

, four by

Antoine Watteau Jean-Antoine Watteau (, , ; baptised 10 October 1684died 18 July 1721) Alsavailablevia Oxford Art Online (subscription needed). was a French Painting, painter and Drawing, draughtsman whose brief career spurred the revival of interest in colour ...

and five signed by

Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres ( ; ; 29 August 1780 – 14 January 1867) was a French Neoclassicism, Neoclassical Painting, painter. Ingres was profoundly influenced by past artistic traditions and aspired to become the guardian of academic ...

. The museum harbors a collection of 2,500 drawings and a library including 1,500 manuscripts, of which 200 are

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. The most renowned of the latter are the ''

Très Riches Heures du Duc de Berry The (; ), or , is an illuminated manuscript that was created between and 1416. It is a book of hours, which is a Christians, Christian devotional book and a collection of prayers said at canonical hours. The manuscript was created for John, ...

''. In addition to these, there are collections of prints, portrait miniatures, sculptures, antiques, old photographs, decorative arts, furniture and porcelain. The collection may only be seen at Chantilly due to the conditions attached to the bequest by the Duke d'Aumale. These conditions forbid the loaning of artworks to other institutions as well as insisting that the exhibition spaces not be modified in any way. As a result, the museum remains almost unchanged since it was opened in 1898. About 250,000 visitors come to the museum each year. Also in the museum's collection is the Chantilly codex (MS 564), the primary manuscript of music. SalledesGardes-ChateauChantilly1.jpg, Salle des gardes Chateau de Chantilly 010.JPG, Chapelle Saint-Louis ChambrePrince-ChateauChantilly2.jpg, Chambre de Monsieur le Prince Chantilly Château de Chantilly Innen Tribune 1.jpg, La Tribune Chantilly Castle 04.jpg, Galerie des cerfs

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