Angladon Museum
The Musée Angladon - Collection Jacques Doucet is an art museum in Avignon . It houses works of art from the collection of the fashion designer Jacques Doucet .
history
Jacques Doucet amassed various collections over several decades. While he donated his extensive libraries of art and modern literature to the University of Paris , he left his important art collection to his wife Jeanne Doucet (1861-1958) and his sister Marie Dubrujeaud (1854-1937) on his death in 1929. In the 1930s, some important works in the collection were sold, while others were donated to the French state. In 1958 the sister's son, Jean Dubrujeaud (1880–1968), inherited the entire part of the collection that remained in the family. His son Jean Angladon-Dubrujeaud (1906–1979), a great-nephew of Jacques Doucet, founded what is now the Musée Angladon as a subsequent heir together with his wife Paulette Martin (1905–1988).
While Jacques Doucet had lived mainly in Paris and the surrounding area of the capital, Jean Angladon-Dubrujeaud and his wife Paulette moved the collection to the old town of Avignon, where they bought the Hôtel de Massilian townhouse at 5 rue Laboureur . It was built in 1694 according to plans by the architect Jean Péru and is named after the Massilian family who lived here in the 18th century. Jean Angladon-Dubrujeaud, who worked as a painter and etcher himself, lived in this house until his death in 1979. After that, his wife Paulette Martin, who died in 1988, lived here. The childless couple had ordered in their will that the house with the collections should be kept open to the public. For this purpose, the Angladon-Dubrujeaud Foundation was established in 1993. After the house was converted for museum purposes, it was opened on November 15, 1996 as the Musée Angladon.
Collection and exhibitions
The main works of the painting collection from the 19th and 20th centuries can be found in several gallery rooms on the ground floor of the museum. These include, for example, the still life Nature morte au pot de grès by Paul Cézanne , the ballet picture Deux danseuses by Edgar Degas , the railway motif Wagons de chemin de fer à Arles by Vincent van Gogh , the winter landscape Paysage de neige à Louveciennes by Alfred Sisley or the portrait La blouse rose by Amedeo Modigliani . There are also paintings such as Le lapin by Édouard Manet , La porte entrebâillée by Édouard Vuillard , Sancho Pança by Honoré Daumier , Rose dans un verre by André Derain , the gouache Arlequin assis by Pablo Picasso and works by Odilon Redon and Tsuguharu Foujita .
Édouard Manet:
Le lapin
Vincent van Gogh:
Wagons de chemin de fer à Arles
Amedeo Modigliani:
La blouse rose
Chinese porcelain:
cat
People of the Loma:
Black wooden maces
The former living quarters of Jean Angladon-Dubrujeaud and Paulette Martin are located on the first floor of the museum. Some rooms are decorated in the style of different epochs from the Renaissance to the 18th century with furniture and works of art from the respective period. There are also important paintings here, such as the still life Nature morte à la raie et au panier d'oignons by Jean Siméon Chardin and memorabilia from earlier apartments by Jacques Doucet, such as the interior painting Grand Salon de Jacques Doucet rue de la Ville-l'Evêque by Walter Gay . In addition, non-European exhibits can be seen here, such as Chinese porcelain and silk painting as well as African wooden masks, for example from the Loma people from Guinea or the Fang people in Gabon . There is also an extensive library in the museum, which also includes a collection of drawings from the 18th and 19th centuries. These include, for example, sheets by François Boucher or Juste-Aurèle Meissonnier . In addition to the permanent exhibition, the museum regularly shows changing exhibitions and organizes lectures on various areas of art, but above all on printmaking and book illustration.
literature
- Chantal Georgel: Jacques Doucet, collectionneur et mécène . INHA Institut national d'histoire de l'art and Les Arts Décoratifs, Paris 2016, ISBN 978-2-916914-67-1 .
- Anne-Marie Peylhard: Musée Angladon, Catalog des collections, Sélection d'œuvres . Fondation Angladon-Dubrujeaud, Avignon 2009.
Web links
Coordinates: 43 ° 56 ′ 45.5 " N , 4 ° 48 ′ 25.3" E
