Villa Ephrussi de Rothschild
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The Villa Ephrussi de Rothschild, also called Villa Île-de-France, is a French seaside villa located at Saint-Jean-Cap-Ferrat on the French Riviera. Designed by the French architect Aaron Messiah, it
Gardenside view of the Villa Ephrussi de Rothschild
Aerial view of the Villa Ephrussi de Rothschild and its gardens
Temple of Love
The stone garden
Maurice Ephrussi
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Maurice Ephrussi was a French banker and horsebreeder.
Villa Ephrussi de Rothschild
…was built between 1907 and 1912 by Baroness Béatrice de Rothschild (1864–1934). A member of the Rothschild banking family and the wife of the banker Baron Maurice de Ephrussi, Béatrice de Rothschild built her rose-tinted villa on a promontory on the isthmus of Cap Ferrat overlooking the Mediterranean Sea. The Baroness filled…
Maurice Ephrussi (first from left) with M. du Bos, Siegfried Lehndorff and Georg von Lehndorff as members of a referee committee at a horse-racing track in Baden-Baden in 1902
Maurice Ephrussi's Prix de Diane winner Serpolette II at Chantilly