Calvet Museum
 Inner courtyard of the museum |
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| place |
Avignon France
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| opening | April 9, 1811 |
| Number of visitors (annually) | 35,131 (2007) |
| management |
Sylvain Boyer
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The Musée Calvet is a French museum in Avignon .
Thanks to the wealth and importance of its collections, it is considered a “classic French museum”. The collections include the areas of archeology , fine arts , crafts , especially jewelry , faience , porcelain , tapestry , blacksmith dit and Ethnology in Asia , Oceania and Africa .
history
The Villeneuve-Martignan town house
In the place of the current town house was originally the Livrée de Cambrai , named after its last owner, Cardinal Pierre d'Ailly , Bishop of Cambrai . In 1719 the building was sold to François-René de Villeneuve, the Marquis of Arzelier and Seigneur of the Principality of Orange .
In 1734, his son Jacques-Ignace de Villeneuve decided to add a new building to his residence, built under the direction of Thomas Lainée . In 1741 he tore down all the buildings in order to venture a new beginning according to the plans of Jean-Baptiste Franque . Work on this was not finished until 1749. The town house was purchased in 1802 by the merchant Deleutre, who then rented it to the city of Avignon to display the Esprit Calvet collections . It was bought by the township on March 3, 1833 to be converted into a museum.
The townhouse was classified as a Monument historique on October 1, 1963 .
The museum
As a great collector and physiocrat in training, Esprit Calvet dedicated his life to medicine and art. In 1810 he bequeathed the house where he was born, a large library, a natural history collection and a beautiful antique cabinet to the city of Avignon, with the necessary means to maintain it. A Napoleonic decree dated April 9, 1811, from the Palais des Tuileries , allowed the Mayor of Avignon to use the museum for the good of the city. The Calvet Museum, which is named in his honor, houses many of his works of art. Since the 1980s, the Calvet Museum in Avignon has been divided into two parts, which extend over two building blocks: the Museum of Fine Arts has remained in the 18th century townhouse of Villeneuve-Martignan, while the lapidarium is in the old chapel the Jesuit school is located on rue de la République .
Museum collections
Visual arts
The Museum of Fine Arts, in the town house of Villeneuve-Martignan, houses art objects, sculptures and paintings from the 16th to the 20th century. The painting collection includes works from the 15th to the 20th century.
The paintings include works by artists such as Josse Lieferinxe , Luis de Morales ( Ecce Homo ), Simon de Châlons , Giorgio Vasari , Jan Brueghel the Younger , Frans Franken ( Cabinet à peintures ), Abraham Bloemaert , Salomon de Bray , Jan Weenix , Jan Frans van Bloemen , Pierre Mignard , Nicolas Mignard , Luca Giordano ( La mort de Lucrèce ), Salvator Rosa , Sebastiano Ricci , Giovanni Paolo Pannini , Nicolas de Largillière , Hubert Robert , Claude Joseph Vernet and Jacques-Louis David ( La Mort you jeune Bara ).
Painting from the 19th century to the beginning of the 20th century is represented by the paintings by Elisabeth Vigée-Lebrun , Théodore Géricault ( Portrait de femme ), Théodore Chassériau , Honoré Daumier , Camille Corot , Édouard Manet ( Nature morte au chapeau espagnol ), Armand Guillaumin , Alfred Sisley ( L'église de Moret ), Emile Bernard , Pierre Bonnard , Maurice de Vlaminck , Chaim Soutine and Albert Gleizes .
Sculptures: works by Francesco Laurana , Giambologna , James Pradier ( Cassandre mourante ), Camille Claudel , as well as a group of Italian and Nordic bronzes from the 16th and 17th centuries and the fifteen Tondi du Rosaire (Spain, early 17th century).
Cardinal Peter of Luxembourg from the Master of the Pietà of Avignon
The Broom Maker by Francisco de Herrera the Elder
The towers of Notre-Dame in Paris by Honoré Daumier
Mazeppa and the Wolves by Horace Vernet
Dedicated to the Queen of the Amazons , Pierre Mignard
Archeology in the lapidary
The lapidarium shows Lauris-Puyvert's stele and offers collections from Egyptian, Greek and Roman cultures.
The Egyptian Collection
The lapidarium presents an interesting collection of Egyptian antiquities, which mainly consists of steles, bronze statues and objects from everyday life and related to belief in the afterlife.
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The Calvet Foundation
The Calvet Foundation is the funder of the Calvet Museum and Library. It takes on the same function for the lapidarium, for the Petit Palais , the natural history museum, as well as for other museums in Avignon.
Conservators of the Calvet Museum
List of curators of the Calvet Museum
- From 1814 to 1823: Pierre-Bertrand Dejean
- From 1823 to 1838: Joseph-Bénézet-Xavier Guérin
- From 1838 to 1840: Marie-Charles-Jean-Louis-Casimir De Blégier
- From 1841 to 1849: Dominique-Victor-Hyacinthe Chaubaud
- From 1849 to 1851: Esprit Requien
- From 1852 to 1890: Augustin Deloye
- From 1890 to 1906: Léon-Honoré Labande
- From 1906 to 1949: Joseph Girard
- From 1949 to 1984: Georges De Loye
- From 1984 to 1991: Marie-Pierre Foissy-Aufrère
- From 1992 to 1994: Odile Cavalier
- From 1995 to 2004: Pierre Provoyeur
- Since 2005: Sylvain Boyer
literature
- Sylvain Gagnière and Pierre de Brun: Les Lampes antiques du musée Calvet d'Avignon , foreword by Pastor Joseph Sautel, 1937.
- Sylvain Gagnière and Jacky Granier: Épées, poignards et couteaux en bronze du musée Calvet d'Avignon , Ogam: tradition celtique, 79, 1962, pp. 13–24.
- Joseph Girard: Évocation du vieil Avignon , Les Éditions de Minuit, Paris, 2007, ISBN 2-7073-1353-X .
See also
Web links
- Museum website (French)
- Article in La Tribune de l'art (French)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Statistics from the French Ministry of Culture ( Memento of the original from March 14, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Le Musée Calvet d'Avignon
- ^ Joseph Girard, p. 290.
- ^ Joseph Girard, p. 294.
- ^ Joseph Girard, p. 295.
- ^ Joseph Girard, p. 299.
- ↑ Ministère de la Culture, base Mérimée, Notice no PA00081881 Archive at http://www.culture.gouv.fr/ Archive .
- ↑ Testament olographe d'Esprit Calvet
- ↑ Le décret impérial of April 9, 1811
- ^ The Calvet Foundation
- ↑ The Conservators of the Calvet Museum
Coordinates: 43 ° 56 ′ 48.8 " N , 4 ° 48 ′ 12.2" E