He grabs his red scarf to enhance the elegance of his clothes and immediately offers “What do you want to drink?” When you enter him. Pierre Rosenberg finds his house “small”. However, these former Parisian public baths transformed into a home are well spacious enough to expose its 700 paintings, align its 50,000 pounds and store its 3,500 drawings in wooden furniture with large drawers. The paintings cover all the walls, to the weapons of frames with frames. An impressive heap of ancient art, which barely leaves room to turn on yourself.
Academician, Honorary President of the Louvre which he directed from 1994 to 2001, Pierre Rosenberg is also a large collector, and amateur-we know less-drawings. This Tuesday, at 88, he was in line at 3 p.m. to attend the opening of the drawing show at the Palais Brongniart (IIE), where 39 French and international merchants were expected.