Moïse de Camondo

Count Moïse de Camondo (15 March 1860 – 14 November 1935) was an Ottoman Empire-born French banker and art collector.

[3] Starting in 1911, he completely rebuilt the family's Parisian mansion on the Parc Monceau in order to house his collection of 18th-century French furniture and artwork.

Working closely with the architect René Sergent, he created a palatial home conforming to certain 18th-century traditions, even planning the room dimensions to match exactly the objects in his collection.

The dining room includes a beautifully-carved green marble fountain in the shape of a shell, with a dolphin spigot for the ritual washing of hands before eating a meal.

During the German occupation of France during World War II, his daughter, Béatrice, her ex-husband, Léon Reinach, and their two children, Fanny and Bertrand, were all murdered in the Auschwitz concentration camp.

Nissim and Béatrice de Camondo in 1916