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 collectorCézanne to Picasso edited by Rebecca A. Rabinow, Douglas W. Druick, and Maryline Assante di Panzillo with a noteworthy interest in the then "avant-garde" artists of the ImpressionistJewish Icons by Richard I. Cohen, pg 191 and Post-Impressionist movements. He bequeathed his collection to The Louvre in 1908,André Salmon on French Modern Art by André Salmon for which a new suite of exhibition rooms was arranged on the second floor of the wing between the and the Grande Galerie and opened in mid-1914.
He inherited the principal role in the family's banking business in 1889,International Banking 1870-1914 edited by Rondo Cameron William Rand, pg 426The New Bibliopolis by Willa Z. Silverman, pg 208 but did not display interest in the bank's development and closed its Istanbul operations in 1894. He was also a skilled amateur composer.The Monthly Musical Record, Volume 36, pg 104
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 and in the establishment of the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées by Gabriel Astruc.
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