Fondation Calvet
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, handicrafts, especially jewelry, faience, porcelain, tapestry, ironwork and Ethnology in Asia, Oceania and Africa.
- 2.1 Visual Arts
- 2.2 Archaeology in the Lapidary 2.2.1 The Egyptian Collection
History
The townhouse Villeneuve- Martignan
There was originally a livery de Cambrai, named after its last owner, Cardinal Pierre d' Ailly, Bishop of Cambrai on the site of today's town house. In 1719 the building to François -René de Villeneuve, the Marquis of Arzelier and Seigneur of the Principality of Orange sold.
1734 decided his son Jacques -Ignace de Villeneuve, his place of residence to add a new building, which was built under the direction of Thomas Lainée. This crack 1741 from all buildings to a fresh start after the plans of Jean -Baptiste Franque. The necessary work was completed only in 1749. This townhouse was built in 1802 property of the merchant Deleutre, which then leased it to the city of Avignon, to exhibit the collections of Esprit Calvet. It was purchased by the municipality on March 3, 1833 to convert it into a museum.
The townhouse has been classified as a monument historique on 1 October 1963.
The Museum
As a great collector and physiocrat in training devoted Esprit Calvet his life to medicine and the arts. In 1810 he left his birthplace, a large library, a natural history collection and a beautiful antique cabinet to the city of Avignon, with the necessary resources to maintain them. A Napoleonic decree dated 9 April 1811 and comes from the Palais des Tuileries, allowed the mayor of Avignon to use the museum for the benefit of the city. The Calvet Museum, which was named in his honor, is home to many of his works of art. Since the 1980s, the Calvet Museum is divided into Avignon in two parts, which extend to two building blocks: the Museum of Fine Arts has remained from the 18th century townhouse of Villeneuve- Martignan while the stone monuments in the old chapel the Jesuit school in the Rue de la République is.
Museum's collections
Fine Arts
The Museum of Fine Arts, in the town of Villeneuve- Martignan house, houses art objects, sculptures and paintings from the 16th to the 20th century. The paintings collection includes works from the 15th to the 20th century.
The paintings are works by artists such as Josse Lieferinxe, Luis de Morales ( Ecce Homo ), Simon de Chalons, 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 du jeune Bara ).
The painting from the 19th century until the beginning of the 20th century by the painting by Elisabeth Vigee -Lebrun, Théodore Géricault ( Portrait de femme ), Théodore Chassériau, Honoré Daumier, Corot, Edouard Manet ( Nature morte au chapeau espagnol ) Armand Guillaumin, Alfred Sisley ( L' église de Moret ), Emile Bernard, Pierre Bonnard, Maurice de Vlaminck, Soutine and Albert Gleizes represented.
Sculptures: works by Francesco Laurana, Giambologna, James Pradier ( Cassandre mourante ), Camille Claudel, and a group of Italian and northern bronzes from the 16th and 17th century and the fifteen Tondi du Rosaire (Spain, early 17th century).
The Besenbinder 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
Archaeology in the Lapidary
The Lapidary offers collections of Egyptian, Greek and Roman culture.
The Egyptian Collection
The Lapidary presents an interesting Egyptian antiquities collection, mainly from stelae, bronze statues, and objects from everyday life and to the belief in the afterlife, composed.
Etruscan sarcophagus
Gallic warrior of Vachères
Gallic warrior of Mondragon
Venus with dolphin
The Calvet Foundation
The Calvet Foundation is the sponsor of the Calvet museum and the library. It assumes the same function for the lapidary, the Petit Palais, the Natural History Museum, as well as other museums in Avignon.
Conservators of the Calvet Museum
List of conservators of the Calvet Museum
- From 1814 to 1823 Pierre -Bertrand Dejean
- From 1823 to 1838: Joseph - Benezet -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 Requiems
- 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