Pierre Crozat (1665–1740) was a French financier, art patron and collector at the center of a broad circle of cognoscenti; he was the brother of Antoine Crozat.
Pierre Crozat, portrait by Rosalba Carriera
Rembrandt's painting Danae from Crozat's collection
Primaticcio's Holy Family was purchased for Catherine (Hermitage Museum)
The Hôtel de Crozat, later the Hôtel de Choiseul, was a Parisian hôtel particulier, constructed in 1704 to the designs of the French architect Jean-Sylvain Cartaud for the rich banker and art collector Pierre Crozat. It was located on the west side of the rue de Richelieu, south of its intersection with the Grand Boulevard. The Duke of Choiseul acquired the hôtel in 1750. It was demolished in 1780, the property subdivided, and a theatre, the Salle Favart, constructed in the former garden.
Concert in the Hôtel de Crozat, c. 1720, painting by Nicolas Lancret (Alte Pinakothek, Munich)
Bedchamber (snuffbox top)
Premier Cabinet (snuffbox bottom)
Site plan for a project by Jacquin (1781, unexecuted) for the theatre of the Opéra-Comique, now the site of the Salle Favart, showing the Hôtel de Choiseul between the rue d'Amboise on the north and the rue Neuve St. Marc on the south and a new wing closing off the former entrance court with an avant-corps facing the courtyard to its east
