Musée Lambinet
The Musée Lambinet is a municipal museum in Versailles telling the history of the town. Since 1932 it has been housed in the hôtel Lambinet, a hôtel particulier designed by Élie Blanchard, built in the second half of the 18th century by a part of the Clagny lake (drained in 1837) and left to the town of Versailles by the heirs of Victor Lambinet (a cousin of the painter Émile Lambinet) in 1929. It has been classed as a monument historique since 1944. Its garden façade has a sculpted pediment representing an allegorical figure of architecture.
 The Musée Lambinet and its garden | |
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| Established | 1932 |
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| Location | Versailles , France |
| Coordinates | 48.8087571°N 2.1301031°E |
| Website | http://culture-lambinet.versailles.fr/ |
The museum has 35 rooms, some with period decor, in which collections on the town's history are displayed, such as furniture, ceramics and objets d'art as well as historic plans of the town and paintings, sculptures and other works of art by artists from the town (notably works by Jean-Antoine Houdon).
Paintings
The catalogue lists 542 works, plus 8 deposited at the municipal library and 2 at the hôtel de ville.
Versailles, The jardin du Roi
Chénier, Marie-Joseph
L-L Boilly, A box
Boilly, The effect of melodrama
Madame Roland
Flowers of the jardin du Roi at Versailles
Bibliography
- (in French) Peintures du musée Lambinet à Versailles, ed. Somogy et Musée Lambinet, 2005, s. l. (Italy), ISBN 2-85056-938-0.