Moïse de Camondo left his Paris house to France in memory of his son; the Nazis deported his daughter and grandchildren, and his ex-wife sold her Renoir portrait

Isaac Camondo founded a bank in Istanbul in 1802, and it became one of the most important in the Ottoman Empire. Moïse de Camondo, born there in 1860, came to Paris with his parents in 1869. In October 1891 he married Irène Cahen d'Anvers. They separated in 1896 and divorced in 1901. Moïse sued her and won, and she was allowed to see their children two hours a week. He kept Nissim, born 1892, and Béatrice, born 1894. In 1911 he took over the family bank and began building a house on the rue de Monceau for his collection of 18th-century French art. On 5 September 1917 Nissim, a pilot, was shot down near Emberménil in Lorraine. Moïse closed the bank that year. He left the house and collection to the French state in 1935 as the Musée Nissim de Camondo. Béatrice married Léon Reinach in 1920. She owned Renoir's 1880 portrait of her mother as a child; it was confiscated in Paris in 1941 and entered Hermann Göring's collection. Béatrice and her daughter were arrested in 1942, and her husband and son soon after. Léon, Fanny and Bertrand were deported to Auschwitz on 20 November 1943. Béatrice followed on 4 March 1944. None returned. The portrait was restituted to Irène on 27 March 1946. On 21 October 1949 it was sold to Emil Bührle for 240,000 Swiss francs. It belongs to the Bührle Foundation in Zurich. The house is a museum.