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The Château de Chantilly. The Musée Condé – in English, the Condé Museum – is a French museum located inside the Château de Chantilly in Chantilly, Oise, 40 km north of Paris.
The Château de Chantilly at the time of the Grand Condé. The estate's connection with the Montmorency family began in 1484. The first mansion (no longer in existence, now replaced by the Grand Château) was built, between 1528 and 1531, for Anne de Montmorency by Pierre Chambiges.
The scene is one described in Plutarch's Life of Demetrius and also attested in the Bibliotheca historica of Diodorus Siculus, Lucian, Appian and Valerius Maximus. Antiochus was the son of Seleucus I Nicator.
The Madonna of Loreto is an oil on panel painting by the Italian High Renaissance painter Raphael, executed c. 1511. [1] It is housed in the Musée Condé of Chantilly, France. [2] [3]
The Massacre of the Innocents (French: Le Massacre des Innocents) is a 1625-1632 painting by Nicolas Poussin, showing the Massacre of the Innocents. [1] It was probably commissioned by the Roman collector Vincenzo Giustiniani, probably in memory of the tragic fate of the Giustiniani children taken hostage by the Ottoman Empire in 1564.
Ahasuerus Chooses Esther, 47 × 131 cm, Musée Condé, Chantilly The three scenes in the Louvre, Mordecai Lamenting ; Esther Faints Before Ahasuerus ; Haman Begs For Mercy In Vain, and Haman is hung in the background.
The painting by Stefano di Giovanni di Consolo, known as il Sassetta (c. 1392 – 1450 or 1451), was originally part of a polyptych at Sansepolcro, where it was seen by Piero della Francesca.
Copies of the work are mentioned in Piedmont in the early 16th century and the Piedmont-born painter Giovanni Martino Spanzotti mentioned it as a "tabuleto fiorentino" in a 1507 letter to Charles II of Savoy.