The Musée Condé occupies the interior of the Grand Château and is, by collection size and quality, the second-most important collection of old master paintings in France after the Louvre. It holds around 800 paintings, 2,500 drawings, 3,000 engravings and 40 illuminated manuscripts.
The Sanctuaire room, kept dim to protect light-sensitive works, contains the most famous treasure: Jean Fouquet's Forty Miniatures, painted around 1452 for Étienne Chevalier, and several pages from the Très Riches Heures du Duc de Berry, the most celebrated illuminated manuscript of the late Middle Ages. Only a facsimile is on permanent display; the original is too fragile to exhibit.
Other rooms hold Raphael's Three Graces, Piero di Cosimo's Simonetta Vespucci, Watteau's Mezzetin, and major works by Poussin, Delacroix, Ingres, Corot, Reynolds and Gainsborough. The Galerie de Peinture is hung in the dense 19th-century style with paintings stacked on the walls. Allow at least two hours for a serious visit.