page_title: Etienne, Marquis de Ganay
section_title: Career
hierarchical_section_title: Etienne, Marquis de Ganay / Career
context_page_description: Etienne Aimé de Ganay, 5th Marquis de Ganay was a French aristocrat and art collector.
context_section_description: Ganay, and his father were both featured in James Tissot's 1868 group portrait painting The Circle of the Rue Royale. The painting depicted the gathering of the Circle of the Rue Royale, a male club founded in 1852 who commissioned the work, and takes place on one of the balconies of the Hôtel de Coislin, overlooking the Place de la Concorde. Each of the twelve subjects paid 1,000 francs for the painting to be made. Others in the painting included Gaston, Marquis de Galliffet (known as an opponent to the 1871 Paris Commune), Prince Edmond de Polignac, the Comte Julien de Rochechouart, the Marquis René de Miramon, Baron Gaston de Saint-Maurice, Capt. Coleraine Vansittart, Baron Rodolphe Hottinguer, Marquis Alfred du Lau d'Allemans, Comte Alfred de La Tour-Maubourg, Charles Haas (who was a source for the character of Charles Swann in Marcel Proust's Remembrance of Things Past).
  In 1893, he became the 5th Marquis of Ganay following the death of his elder brother who died without male issue. Like his father and grandfather before him (who owned the famous Comte de Pourtalès Collection which was auctioned off in 1865), he was an art collector.  In May 1910, his widow acquired Édouard Manet's 1879 Self-Portrait with Palette from the estate of Suzanne Manet, the artist's widow who had died in 1906. His heirs sold the painting to Jakob Goldschmidt in 1931.
  The captain of La Korrigane, de Ganay also served as president of the Yacht Club de France, the oldest nautical club in France, and one of the most important yacht clubs in the world.
caption: The Circle of the Rue Royale, by James Tissot, 1868.
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