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17-442: Opened on Rue Laffitte in 1863 by Alexandre Bernheim (1839-1915), friend of Delacroix , Corot and Courbet , it changed location a few times before settling on Avenue Matignon. The gallery promoted realists , Barbizon school paintings and, in 1874, the first impressionist and later Post-Impressionist painters. It closed in 2019. In 1901, Alexandre Bernheim, with his sons, Josse (1870–1941), and Gaston (1870–1953), organized

34-465: A Bonnard and Renoir specialist, started heading Bernheim-Jeune. The gallery now exhibits painters and sculptors in the tradition of the École de Paris and artists such as Jean Carzou , Shelomo Selinger or Pollès . In 2022, Maurice Utrillo 's "Carrefour à Sannois" which had been looted in 1940 during the Nazi occupation of France from a cousin of Josse and Gaston Bernheim-Jeune, Georges Bernheim ,

51-704: A street bearing his name. Dowager queen Kishwar Sultana of erstwhile princely state of Oudh , in Northern India, stayed at the Hôtel Papy in 1858 on this street after she returned from London, when Queen Victoria refused her plea to restore her son Wajid Ali Shah to the throne of Oudh. Oudh had been annexed earlier by the British East India Company . In fact, she died at the hôtel and is buried at Père Lachaise Cemetery in Paris. At

68-565: A theater decorator but quickly realized he preferred drawing and painting. In 1938, more than a hundred exhibitions of his works were organized in Paris, in the French provinces and abroad. In 1949, he received the coveted Hallmark prize. In 1952, he created costumes and sceneries for Les Indes Galantes of Rameau at the Opéra de Paris. He continued with Le Loup (1953) for "Les Ballets" of Roland Petit , Giselle (1954) and Athalie (1955) at

85-578: The German occupation , its property was seized by the Reichsleiter Rosenberg Taskforce or ERR. In 1941 Bernheim-Jeune was sequestered, paintings confiscated and their buildings sold. Like other Jewish families such as Réné Gimpel , Adolphe Schloss , Anna Jaffé , Raoul Meyer , Armand Dorville , Alfred Lindon , David David-Weill , Alphonse Kann , Paul Rosenberg , Bernheim had to labor for several decades to recover some of

102-534: The Revolution of 1830 : they offered the crown to the future King Louis Philippe I , because King Charles X had allowed soldiers to shoot civilians and because they feared that a republic would lead to disorder and foreign wars. In December 1830, Laffitte was President of the French Council of Ministers and the street was renamed after him. Laffitte shares with Victor Hugo the honour of having lived in

119-537: The Opéra and "La Comédie française". Carzou was elected a member of the Institut de France , Académie des beaux-arts , succeeding in the seat left vacant by the death of painter Jean Bouchaud in 1977. He was also awarded the National Order of Merit of France. A Carzou museum exists in the town of Dinard (Brittany). Carzou's work is held in the permanent collections of several institutions, including

136-700: The beginning of the street at the junction with the Boulevard des Italiens or the Boulevard Haussmann , there is an interesting view of the Sacré-Cœur de Montmartre , which seems to be on top of the church of Notre-Dame de Lorette . In fact, it is much more distant. Jean Carzou Jean Carzou ( Armenian : Ժան Գառզու , born in Aleppo ; 1 January 1907 – 12 August 2000) was a French–Armenian artist, painter, and illustrator, whose work illustrated

153-497: The château, after five truckloads of items were removed; the paintings may have been destroyed. The son of Gaston and Suzanne Bernheim, Claude Bernheim dit Bernheim de Villers (September 15, 1902 – 1944), was arrested and deported in 1943 to his death at Auschwitz . After the death in 2012 of Michel Dauberville, descendant of Bernheim, his cousin Guy-Patrice Dauberville, also an expert in modern paintings and

170-466: The first important exhibition of Vincent van Gogh paintings in Paris with the help of art critic Julien Leclercq . In 1906, Bernheim-Jeune frères started presenting works by Pierre Bonnard , Édouard Vuillard , Paul Cézanne , Henri-Edmond Cross , Kees van Dongen , Henri Matisse , Le Douanier Rousseau , Raoul Dufy , Maurice de Vlaminck , Amedeo Modigliani , Maurice Utrillo and Georges Dufrénoy . From 1906 to 1925, art critic Félix Fénéon

187-599: The future Napoleon III , was born at number 15 on 20 April 1808. After the Bourbon Restoration , the street's name was changed back to Rue d'Artois . In 1826, the street was lengthened to the Rue Notre-Dame-de-Lorette , in the field of Hôtel Thellusson , which was destroyed. The French financier and politician Jacques Laffitte (1767–1844) had his mansion at no. 27. On 30 July 1830, with Adolphe Thiers and La Fayette , he took part in

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204-705: The gallery would be closing. Rue Laffitte The Rue Laffitte is a street in the 9th arrondissement of Paris , located near the Metro stations Richelieu - Drouot and Notre-Dame-de-Lorette . This street was created in 1771 between the Boulevard des Italiens and the Rue de Provence . Its original name was Rue d'Artois , in honour of the Comte d'Artois, brother of the King Louis XVI , later king of France with

221-569: The name of Charles X . But in 1792, during the French Revolution , the prince had emigrated outside France and the street was renamed Rue Cerutti after Giuseppe Cerutti , an Italian former Jesuit and writer living in a mansion in the street at the junction with the Boulevard des Italiens, who became Republican and was elected to the French National Assembly . He wrote the eulogy of Mirabeau . Louis Napoleon,

238-457: The novels of Ernest Hemingway and Albert Camus . Carzou was born Karnik Zouloumian ( Armenian : Գառնիկ Զուլումեան ) in Aleppo , Syria to an Armenian family. Carzou later created his name from the first syllables of his name and surname, and added a Parisian nickname, " Jean ". He was educated in Cairo , Egypt before moving to Paris in 1924 to study architecture. He started working as

255-648: The paintings, the task made more difficult as two record ledgers had disappeared from the gallery during the looting. In 1940 sensing that they, of Jewish background, would be targeted by the Nazis, the Bernheim-Jeune family had sent 30 or so impressionist and post-impressionist paintings to the Château de Rastignac in Dordogne for safekeeping. On March 30, 1944, fleeing Nazi Schutzstaffel (SS) forces set fire to

272-513: Was restituted to the heirs after a long legal battle. The city of Sannois (Val-d'Oise) had bought the painting at Sotheby's in 2004. In 2015 the Commission responsible for dealing with Nazi looted art (the CIVS) advised the town that the painting had been looted. A new law voted by France's National Assembly in 2022 paved the way for restitution. In 2018, the Bernheim-Jeune website announced

289-580: Was the director of the gallery and was instrumental in bringing in the art of Georges Seurat and Umberto Boccioni . The gallery became one of the centers of the artistic avant-garde . In 1906, the gallery also began publishing monographs; its first release was devoted to the paintings of Eugène Carrière . In 1919 it also launched a bimonthly bulletin about artistic life. In 1922, an exhibition brought together works by Alice Halicka , Auguste Herbin , Pierre Hodé, Moïse Kisling , Marie Laurencin , Henri Lebasque , Fernand Léger and Henri Matisse . During

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