MUSEUM OF DECORATIVE ARTS-HOTEL LALLEMANT
Hotel Lallemant, a special Renaissance hotel, was built in 1951 in a museum of decorative arts. The collections include furniture, mainly French, including a rare ebony cabinet carved and engraved in the seventeenth century, furniture in marquetry or China lacquer, a set of sixteenth-century tapestries, and art objects: earthquakes, emills, ivoires, glassware, watchmaking, miniature furniture, master's furniture. Paintings from xve in the eighteenth centuries - France, Italy, the Netherlands - complement this intimate presentation. There are works by the painter Jean Boucher (1575-1633), a masterpiece of Simon Vouet and Nicolas Tournier (seventeenth century), Dutch dead and portraits, and a painting by Lemoyne (eighteenth century). The oratory has a ceiling of thirty finely ciselated caissons, the grounds of which offer a symbolism related to alchemy: Open book in flames, horn horn, horn of abundance… A beautiful collection of toys from the beginning of the twentieth century occupies the top floor. For free visits, an explanatory notebook is provided at the reception.
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