Isaac de Camondo

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Count Isaac de Camondo (born 3 July 1851 in Istanbul; died 7 April 1911 in Paris) was a member of the House of Camondo, noted primarily as an art collector^[1] with a noteworthy interest in the then "avant-garde" artists of the Impressionist^[2] and Post-Impressionist movements. He bequeathed his collection to The Louvre in 1908,^[3] for which a new suite of exhibition rooms was arranged on the second floor of the wing between the Pavillon Mollien and the Grande Galerie and opened in mid-1914.^[4]: 281

He inherited the principal role in the family's banking business in 1889,^[5][6] but did not display interest in the bank's development and closed its Istanbul operations in 1894.^[4]: 213 He was also a skilled amateur composer.^[7]

A generous philanthropist who did not insist on giving his name to initiatives he sponsored, he was instrumental in the creation of the Société des amis du Louvre^[4]: 272 and in the establishment of the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées by Gabriel Astruc.^[4]: 265

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