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Waddesdon

Waddesdon Manor was built in 1874-89 for Baron Ferdinand de Rothschild by Gabriel-Hippolye Destailluer and is perhaps the most extravagant expression in Britain of the short-lived French Renaissance Revival. A lover of 18th-century French art, Rothschild hired Destailluer (a French architect) and Elie Lainé (a French landscape designer) to achieve his vision of a château in the middle of the Buckinghamshire countryside. The result is an asymmetrical composition of bright yellow Bath stone as well as a pastiche of references to various French châteaux, including Blois and Chambord. Waddesdon has a particularly dramatic roofline of flèches, spires, turrets, pinnacles and steeply pitched roofs. The interior decoration is strictly French 18th century, much of it imported by Rothschild. For example, there is Louis XV panelling (c.1750) from the Paris house of the Maréchal-Duc de Richelieu and Louis XVI panelling (c.1770-6) from the home of the financier Nicolas Beaujon.

Visitor Information

Address:
Waddesdon,
near Aylesbury,
Buckinghamshire,
England,
HP18 0JH

Telephone: 01296 653226

www.nationaltrust.org.uk/waddesdon-manor
www.waddesdon.org.uk/collection/about-the-collection/
www.britishmuseum.org/explore/galleries/themes/room_2a_waddesdon_bequest.aspx

Waddesdon, Buckinghamshire

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Online records for this collection are currently in preparation. A fine collection of 18th century French paintings (Watteau, Boucher); furniture, carpets; 18th century English portraits (Reynolds, Gainsborough, Romney); Dutch and Flemish masters; Old Masters' drawings; a significant collection of Sevres, Meissen and oriental porcelain; arms and armour and glass and enamel. Also a stupendous collection of mostly French books, many in bindings of the greatest possible quality and magnificence (these are not reading copies), usually of royal and aristocratic provenance, all assembled by Baron Ferdinand de Rothschild (1839-98). A small collection of superb medieval manuscripts (printed catalogue by Delaissé, 1977). For more information on the collection see www.waddesdon.org.uk.