Camondo, Isaac de
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- Catalogue de la collection Isaac de Camondo, 1922?
- Camondo, I. de. Le clown, c1906:t.p. (I. de Camondo)
- Candelari, A. Per il Signor Leone Alfassa come tutore della propria moglie Sig.a Contessa Clarice de Camondo, 1895:t.p. (Conte Isaaco de Camondo)
- OCLC, Feb. 12, 2008(hdgs.: Camondo, I. de (Isaac), ca. 1848-1911; Camondo, I. de (Isaac), 1851-1911; Camondo, de; Camondo, Isaac de; Camondo, Isaac de, Comte; Camondo, Isaac de, Comte, d. 1911; Camondo, Isacco de, conte; usages: I. de Camondo; Isaac de Camondo; Isaaco 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 with a noteworthy interest in the then "avant-garde" artists of the Impressionist and Post-Impressionist movements. He bequeathed his collection to The Louvre in 1908, 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.: 281 He inherited the principal role in the family's banking business in 1889, but did not display interest in the bank's development and closed its Istanbul operations in 1894.: 213 He was also a skilled amateur composer. 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: 272 and in the establishment of the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées by Gabriel Astruc.: 265
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