The Musée de la Chasse et de la Nature is a private museum of hunting and nature located in the IIIe arrondissement at 62, rue des Archives, Paris, France. It is open daily except Mondays and holidays; an admission fee is charged.
The museum was founded in 1964 by François and Jacqueline
Sommer, and is operated by the Fondation de la Maison de la Chasse
et de la Nature. It is housed within the Hôtel de Guénégaud
(1651-1655), designed by architect François Mansart, and since 2002
in the Hôtel de Mongelas (1703) as well. Its collections are
organized as follows:
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The image of the animal, Hôtel de Mongelas - taxidermy
and trophies, a cabinet of curiosities, exhibits featuring wolves,
falcons and other
birds, horses, dogs, hunting horns, and
paintings by Jan Brueghel, Lucas Cranach, André Derain, and Peter
Paul Rubens.
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Art and the Hunt, Hôtel de Guénégaud - hunting weapons
including crossbows and arquebuses, a Regency style room with
sculpture by Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin, Jean-Baptiste-Camille
Corot, Alexandre-Gabriel Decamps, Alfred De Dreux,
Alexandre-François Desportes, Jean-Baptiste Huet, Jean-Baptiste
Santerre, and Antoine Charles Horace Vernet.
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