Musée
d'Ennery

Located at 59, avenue Foch, the Hôtel d'Ennery is the embodiment of a past era. Per the wishes of its owners, it has remained unchanged and became one of the landmarks of Japonisme in France when it was donated to the French State in 1908.

It has long been said that the Asian art collection of the musée d’Ennery was the work of journalist and playwright Adolphe Philippe d’Ennery. However, it is his wife, Clémence Desgranges, who deserves to be credited for gathering the 7000 objects of the collection originating mostly from China and Japan. Clémence began her life as an actress before developing a passion for Chinese and Japanese art and becoming one of the few women acknowledged in the very close-knit, masculine collecting circle.

An abundant display, as per the wishes of Clémence d'Ennery, mixes objects great and small, such as the okimono -small sized Japanese sculptures in wood, ivory or bone-, lacquerware, Kyoto ware and Noh masks. Visitors to the museum can also discover effigies of several divinities, buddhas, and a remarkable collection of netsuke, the finely carved miniature sculptures that were used to fasten kimono belts. Objects belonging to scholars, numerous ceramics representing chimeras, porcelains and figurines complete this one of a kind venue and its movie-like décor.