The Museum of Art and Archeology of Périgord, often abbreviated MAAP, is a municipal museum located in

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. It is the oldest museum in the Dordogne department and it includes over 2,000

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of permanent exhibition.

History

A first museum was established in 1804 in the city's Jesuit chapel by Count Wlgrin de Taillefer. In 1808, the increasing collection was moved to the

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of the arena of Périgueux and thence took the name of ''Vésunien Museum''. Count Wlgrin de Taillefer died on February 2, 1833. In his will, he bequeathed his antiquities to Joseph de Mourcin, provided they be deposited in a museum which was to be built near the tower of Vésone, or in a museum in

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. In 1835, upon the proposal of the mayor of Périgueux, the ''Museum of antiques and objets d'arts collection was transferred to the chapel of the White Penitents, to the south of the cloister of the Saint-Front Cathedral. The museum took the name of "Archaeological Museum of Dordogne" in 1836 and became departmental thereafter. It was run by Joseph de Mourcin with the assistance of Abbé Audierne and Doctor Édouard Galyuntil until Mourcin's death. Doctor Galy succeeded Joseph de Mourcin upon his death. He set up the museum in its current location, in the former Augustinian convent used as a prison from 1808 to 1866, when it became in fact the museum's new site. The archaeological collection was gradually transferred there between 1869 and 1874. Michel Hardy, president of the Historical and Archaeological Society of Périgord, succeeded Édouard Galy upon his death. In 1857, a section dedicated to the

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was added to the museum's archaeological nucleus. It was then the only public collection of this nature in Dordogne. Mayor Alfred Bardy-Delisle created a municipal museum for painting and sculpture in Périgueux in 1859. In 1891, upon the consistent bequeath of the Marquis de Saint-Astier of over 150 paintings (Flemish, French and Italian, from the 16th to the 19th century), the city decided to buy the old Augustinian convent, where the collection of the archaeological museum of the Dordogne department is now exhibited, and the buildings around it to create a new structure. On June 27, 1891, Gérard de Fayolle became curator of the municipal museum. In 1893, Gérard de Fayolle was appointed curator of the archaeological museum of the Dordogne department, replacing Michel Hardy who had been curator of that museum since 1887. The two museums were then in the old buildings of the Augustinian convent. In 1895, the General Council ceded the archaeological collection of the departmental museum to the city and made a significant financial contribution for the construction of a new museum. The architectural competition for the new museum's house was launched in 1893. The current museum was built between 1895 and 1898 on the plans of the architect Charles Planckaert. The first stone was laid by the President of the Republic

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. In 1903, Gérard de Fayolle was appointed curator of the new museum of art and archaeology of Périgord, which he organized with the help of his assistant, Maurice Féaux, who had previously assisted Michel Hardy in organizing the collection of the department's archaeological museum. The archaeological collection was quickly expanded with geology, mineralogy, and prehistory collections as well as pieces from the medieval period resulting from research in Périgord. Archaeological pieces from

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were later added to the museum's main collection. The museum has been a

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of France since 2020.

Collection

East wing

The east wing presents major works of medieval art such as a diptych from

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dating to 1280 and a

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from the now lost 14th-century church of Saint-Silan; works of art ranging from the 16th to the 20th century, which evoke the quality and characteristics of the works on display and the collections of non-European ethnography (seventh most important collection in France, with objects from Africa and Oceania). On the first floor are exhibited the collections of prehistory (fourth most important collection in France)"Le musée", at the museum's official website
/ref> with numerous flint tools testifying to the human occupation in Périgord more than 400,000 years ago (Neanderthal fossil skeleton from the cave of Le Regourdou, Montignac, about 95,000 years old; a

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fossil skeleton , the so-called Chancelade man, about 12,000 years old; painted and carved blocks from the Blanchard des Roches shelter of the prehistoric site of Castel-Merle in

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, 35,000 years old; stone with carved woman-figures from the prehistoric site of Termo-Pialat in Saint-Avit-Sénieur; the carved reindeer of

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; a collection of Magdalenian

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, including a carved rib from the Cro-Magnon shelter in Les Eyzies-de-Tayac-Sireuil and the bison bone pendant from the Raymonden shelter in

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. Édouard Galy, « Saint Sile (Silain), l'un des patrons de Périgueux (vitrail peint du XIV^e siècle) », dans ''Bulletin de la

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Cloister

The cloister is a garden space that connects the east wing and the west wing of the museum, conceived for the presentation of the lapidary collection from the Gallo-Roman, medieval and Renaissance periods. It houses the remains of buildings from Périgueux and the Dordogne that have now disappeared (Romanesque sculptures from the disappeared church of San Frontone, dossals, decorations of private buildings, Merovingian and Carolingian

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, 13th and 14th century rhombus stones). The setting was inspired by a romantic envisioning of the ruins, typical of the time of their discovery in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.

West wing

The west wing of the museum houses the fine arts section, created in 1857 and enriched thanks to donations and purchases from local collections, from state deposits of artworks from the Louvre collection and from purchases of works from the exhibitions of the Paris Salons. In 1891, after the aforementioned substantial donation from the Marquis of Saint-Astier, the wing meant to host this section was built, then renovated in 2002 with an installation in which the colors of the walls of the rooms were linked to the chronological period of the works: yellow for the hall of the eighteenth century and green for the hall in the Empire style of the early nineteenth century, light gray or bluish gray for the rooms dedicated to the nineteenth and twentieth centuries with progressively lighter colors. In each room there are paintings, sculptures, furniture and art objects of the period, both local and illustrating the art of France,

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and

. * 17th century French artworks: ''Siege of Namur'' by

Jean-Baptiste Martin Jean-Baptiste Martin, known as "Martin des Batailles" (1659, Paris - 8 October 1735, Paris) was a French painter, decorator and designer who specialized in drawings for tapestries. He was best known for battle scenes, hence his nickname. Biogra ...

and two Battle Scenes by

Jacques Courtois Jacques Courtois or Giacomo Cortese, called il Borgognone or le Bourguignon (12 ?December 162114 November 1676) was a Franche-Comtois–Italian painter, draughtsman, and etcher. He was mainly active in Rome and Florence and became known as the ...

* French works of the eighteenth century: Landscapes by

Hubert Robert Hubert Robert (22 May 1733 – 15 April 1808) was a French painter in the school of Romanticism, noted especially for his landscape paintings and capricci, or semi-fictitious picturesque depictions of ruins in Italy and of France.Jean de Cayeux. ...

and

Pierre Patel Pierre Patel (1605 – 5 August 1676) was a French painter. Patel was born in Picardy and was admitted to the Guild of Saint-Germain-des-Prés in 1633 and the Académie de Saint-Luc The Académie de Saint-Luc was the guild of painters and scul ...

; ''End of a Storm'' by

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; ''Madonna and Child'' by

Charles Antoine Coypel Charles-Antoine Coypel (11 July 1694 – 14 June 1752) was a French painter, art commentator, and playwright. He became court painter to the French king and director of the Académie Royale. He inherited the title of ''Garde des tableaux et dessi ...

and other works by

Jean-Baptiste Oudry Jean-Baptiste Oudry (; 17 March 1686 – 30 April 1755) was a French Rococo painter, engraver, and tapestry designer. He is particularly well known for his naturalistic pictures of animals and his hunt pieces depicting game. His son, Jacques-Ch ...

Charles-Joseph Natoire Charles-Joseph Natoire (3 March 1700 – 23 August 1777) was a French painter in the Rococo manner, a pupil of François Lemoyne and director of the French Academy in Rome, 1751–1775. Considered during his lifetime the equal of François Bouc ...

and

Pierre-Henri de Valenciennes Pierre-Henri de Valenciennes (December 6, 1750 – February 16, 1819) was a French painter who was influential in elevating the status of ''En plein air'' (open-air painting). Life & work Valenciennes worked in Rome from 1778 to 1782, where he m ...

* Nineteenth-century French works: Adolphe Appian,

Léon Bonnat Léon Joseph Florentin Bonnat (20 June 1833 – 8 September 1922) was a French painter, Grand Officer of the Légion d'honneur and professor at the Ecole des Beaux Arts. Early life Bonnat was born in Bayonne, but from 1846 to 1853 he lived in M ...

William Adolphe Bouguereau William-Adolphe Bouguereau (; 30 November 1825 – 19 August 1905) was a French academic painter. In his realistic genre paintings, he used mythological themes, making modern interpretations of classical subjects, with an emphasis on the female ...

and

Paul Guigou Paul Camille Guigou (15 February 1834 – 21 December 1871) was a French landscape painter. Guigou was born in Villars, Vaucluse in a wealthy family of farmers and notaries. He studied painting in Apt and later with Émile Loubon in Marsei ...

* French works of the twentieth century: by the painters Maurice Marinot and Emile Othon Friesz and by the sculptors Jane Poupelet and Étienne Hajdu ; * Flemish works: ''The Extraction of the Stone of Madness'' by

Pieter Huys Pieter Huys (c.1519 – c.1584) was a Flemish Renaissance painter. He is known of his early life, and though he was mostly active in Antwerp, his place of birth and death is not certain. He became a master in the Antwerp Guild of St. Luke in 1545 ...

, still lifes by

Jan Davidsz. de Heem Jan Davidsz. de Heem or in-full ''Jan Davidszoon de Heem'', also called ''Johannes de Heem'' or ''Johannes van Antwerpen'' or ''Jan Davidsz de Hem'' (c. 17 April 1606 in Utrecht – before 26 April 1684 in Antwerp), was a still life painter wh ...

and

Jan van Huysum Jan van Huysum (or Jan van Huijsum) (15 April 1682 – 8 February 1749) is the most notable member of the Van Huysum family of artists working in Dutch Golden Age of the 17th and 18th centuries; “by common consent, Jan van Huysum has been held ...

, works by

Frans Floris Frans Floris, Frans Floris the Elder or Frans Floris de Vriendt (17 April 15191 October 1570) was a Flemish painter, draughtsman, print artist and tapestry designer. He is mainly known for his history paintings, allegorical scenes and portraits.< ...

and Abraham Bloemaert , ''Hooded Falcon'' by

Jan Fyt Jan Fijt or Johannes Fijt (or Fyt) (19 August 1609 – 11 September 1661) was a Flemish Baroque painter, draughtsman and etcher. One of the leading animaliers of the 17th century, he was known for his refined depictions of animals and his lush ...

, ''King Solomon Pays Homage to the God Moloch on Request of His Hundred Women'', by

Frans II Francken Frans Francken the Younger (1581 in Antwerp, 1581 – 6 May 1642, in Antwerp) was a Flemish painter who created altarpieces and furniture panels and gained his reputation chiefly through his small and delicate cabinet pictures with historical, m ...

and ''Allegory of the Occasion'', attributed to the latter's workshop; ''Landscape with Ruins'' by

Bartholomeus Breenbergh Bartholomeus Breenbergh (before 13 November 1598 – after 3 October 1657) was a Dutch Golden Age painter of Italian and Italianate landscapes, in Rome (1619-1630) and Amsterdam (1630-1657). Biography Little is known of his early life. In his ...

* Italian operas: ''Saint Paul on the Road to Damascus'' by

Luca Giordano Luca Giordano (18 October 1634 – 3 January 1705) was an Italian late-Baroque painter and printmaker in etching. Fluent and decorative, he worked successfully in Naples and Rome, Florence, and Venice, before spending a decade in Spain. Ear ...

; artworks by

Francesco Cairo Francesco Cairo (26 September 1607 – 27 July 1665), also known as Francesco del Cairo, was an Italian Baroque painter active in Lombardy and Piedmont. Biography He was born and died in Milan. It is not known where he obtained his early train ...

; ''Seller of Fish'' by

Giuseppe Recco __NOTOC__ Giuseppe Recco (1634 – 29 May 1695) was an Italian painter in the Baroque style. He specialized in a variety of still lifes. Career Born in Naples, he likely apprenticed with his family, including his father Giacomo Recco and u ...

; ''Muzio Scevola'' by

Gaspare Diziani Gaspare Diziani (1689 – 17 August 1767) was an Italian painter of the late-Baroque or Roccoco period, active mainly in the Veneto but also in Dresden and Munich. The artist's canvas is the largest painting of the Hermitage Museum in St. Petersb ...

; ''The Wedding Feast at Cana'' by

Sebastiano Ricci Sebastiano Ricci (1 August 165915 May 1734) was an Italian painter of the late Baroque school of Venice. About the same age as Piazzetta, and an elder contemporary of Tiepolo, he represents a late version of the vigorous and luminous Cortonesqu ...

; ''The Grand Canal'' by Canaletto * Spanish works: two paintings by

Luis de Morales Luis de Morales (1509 – 9 May 1586) was a Spanish painter active during the Spanish Renaissance in the 16th century. Known as "El Divino", most of his work was of religious subjects, including many representations of the Madonna and Child and ...

* Porcelain:

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, 17th-century Chinese porcelain, Delftware, Chinese and Japanese porcelain dating to the nineteenth century;

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; works by the ceramist

Pierre-Adrien Dalpayrat Pierre-Adrien Dalpayrat or Adrien Dalpayrat (14 April 1844 – 10 August 1910) was a French potter who was a significant figure in French art pottery, especially known for his innovative coloured ceramic glazes, mostly on stoneware, but ...

Collection highlights

Musée d'art et d'archéologie du Périgord - Luis de Morales - Saint Jacques et saint Jean l'Évangéliste.jpg, ''Saint James and Saint John the Evangelist'' by

. Early 16th century Musée d'art et d'archéologie du Périgord - Luis de Morales - Saint Jean-Baptiste et saint Paul.jpg, ''Saint John the Baptist and Saint Paul'' by Luis de Morales. Early 16th century Pieter Huys A surgeon extracting the stone of folly.jpg, ''A Surgeon Extracting the Stone of Folly'' by

. 1545-1577 Brantome-Bourdeille.jpg, ''Portrait de Pierre de Bourdeille, seigneur de Brantôme. Anonyme'' by Unknown master. 16th century Musée d'art et d'archéologie du Périgord - École florentine du 16ième siècle suite d'Agnolo Bronzino - Portrait d'un homme cuirassé.jpg, ''Portrait d'un homme cuirassé'' by Unknown Florentine master. 16th century Musée d'art et d'archéologie du Périgord - Frans Floris - Une fête de divinités marines.jpg, ''Une fête de divinités marines'' by

. 16th century Allegorie de l Occasion Frans II Francken 1628.jpg, ''Allegorie de l'Occasion'' by

Frans Francken the Younger Frans Francken the Younger (1581 in Antwerp, 1581 – 6 May 1642, in Antwerp) was a Flemish painter who created altarpieces and furniture panels and gained his reputation chiefly through his small and delicate cabinet pictures with historical, m ...

. 1628 Musée d'art et d'archéologie du Périgord - Attribué à Francesco Cairo - Sainte Catherine de Sienne.jpg, ''

Saint Catherine of Siena Catherine of Siena (Italian: ''Caterina da Siena''; 25 March 1347 – 29 April 1380), a member of the Third Order of Saint Dominic, was a mystic, activist, and author who had a great influence on Italian literature and on the Catholic Church. ...

'' by

. Early 17th century Musée d'art et d'archéologie du Périgord - Jan Davidszoon de Heem - Fruits, vaisselle et homard.jpg, ''Fruits, dishes and lobster'' by

Jan Davidszoon de Heem Jan Davidsz. de Heem or in-full ''Jan Davidszoon de Heem'', also called ''Johannes de Heem'' or ''Johannes van Antwerpen'' or ''Jan Davidsz de Hem'' (c. 17 April 1606 in Utrecht – before 26 April 1684 in Antwerp), was a still life painter ...

. Early 17th century Musée d'art et d'archéologie du Périgord - École hollandaise du début du 17ième siècle - Vierge à l'Enfant dans une couronne de fleurs.jpg, ''Madonna and Child in a Wreath of Flowers'' by Unknown Netherlandish master. Early 17th century Musée d'art et d'archéologie du Périgord - Franz Francken II - Le roi Salomon rendant grâce au dieu Moloch à la demande de ses cent femmes.jpg, ''Le roi Salomon rendant grâce au dieu Moloch à la demande de ses cent femmes'' by Frans Francken the Younger. Early 17th century File:Musée d'art et d'archéologie du Périgord - Abraham Bloemaert - Paysage au bord d'un fleuve.jpg, '' Paysage au bord d'un fleuve'' by Abraham Bloemaert. Early 17th century Musée d'art et d'archéologie du Périgord - Scipione Compagno - Décapitation de saint Janvier (de Naples).jpg, ''Décapitation de Saint Janvier'' by

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. Early 17th century Musée d'art et d'archéologique du Périgord - Jan Abrahamsz Beerstraaten - Vue d'un village sous la neige.jpg, ''View of a Snowy Village'' by

Jan Abrahamsz Beerstraaten Jan Abrahamsz Beerstraaten (bapt. 1 March 1622 in Amsterdam – buried in July 1666 in Amsterdam?) was a Dutch painter of marine art and landscapes, particularly of events of the First Anglo-Dutch War and Dutch-Swedish War. Biography There is s ...

. Early 17th century Musée d'art et d'archéologie du Périgord - École vénitienne du 17ième siècle - Vénus et Adonis.jpg, ''Venus and Adonis'' by Unknown Venetian master. 17th century Musée d'art et d'archéologie du Périgord - École vénitienne fin du 17ème siècle - Noces de Cana.jpg, ''Noces de Cana'' by Unknown Venetian master. 17th century Musée d'art et d'archéologie du Périgord - Juriaen van Streeck - Nature morte avec pommes, citron et raisins.jpg, ''Still Life with Apples, a Lemon and Grapes'' by Juriaen van Streeck. 17th century Siege of Namur (1692).JPG, '' Siege of Namur'' by

. 1693 Musée d'art et d'archéologie du Périgord - Luca Giordano - Saint Paul sur le chemin de Damas.jpg, ''Saint Paul on the Road to Damascus'' by

. ca. 1700 Musée d'art et d'archéologie du Périgord - Adrien Manglard - Fin d'une tempête.jpg, ''The End of the Storm'' by

. Early 18th century Louis Vigée - Portrait de Jean Nicolas de Boullongne (1726-1787).jpg, ''Portrait of Jean Nicolas de Boullongne'' by

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. 1726-1787 Musée d'art et d'archéologie du Périgord - Nicolas-Bernard Lépicié - La dévideuse.jpg, ''The Unwinder'' by Nicolas-Bernard Lépicié. 18th century Musée d'art et d'archéologie du Périgord - Charles-Joseph Natoire - Danaé.jpg, ''

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'' by

. 18th century Musée d'art et d'archéologie du Périgord - Charles Antoine Coypel - Vierge à l'Enfant.jpg, ''Vierge à l'Enfant'' by

. 1740 Musée d'art et d'archéologie du Périgord - Hubert Robert - Le vieux pont sur le torrent.jpg, ''Le vieux pont sur le torrent'' by

. Late 18th century Musée d'art et d'archéologie du Périgord - École de Jacques-Louis David - Mars désarmé par les Grâces.jpg, '' Mars désarmé par les Grâces'', circle of

Jacques-Louis David Jacques-Louis David (; 30 August 1748 – 29 December 1825) was a French painter in the Neoclassicism, Neoclassical style, considered to be the preeminent painter of the era. In the 1780s, his cerebral brand of history painting marked a change in ...

. Late 18th century or early 19th century Musée d'art et d'archéologie du Périgord - Karl Ferdinand Sohn - Portrait de Madame Alfred Magne.jpg, ''Portrait of Madame Alfred Magne'' by

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. Early 19th century Musée d'art et d'archéologie du Périgord - Jules Coignet - Maison des Consuls à Périgueux.jpg, ''Maison des Consuls à Périgueux'' by

Jules Coignet Jules Louis Philippe Coignet was born in Paris in 1798 and died there in 1860. He was a noted landscape art, landscape painter who had studied under Jean-Victor Bertin. He travelled a good deal in his own country as well as elsewhere in Europe a ...

. 1833 Musée d'art et d'archéologie du Périgord - Jacques Raymond Brascassat - Bétail au pâturage.jpg, '' Bétail au pâturage'' by

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. Early 19th century Musée d'art et d'archéologie du Périgord - Jean Achard - Chaumière sous les arbres à Auvers.jpg, ''Chaumière sous les arbres à Auvers'' by

Jean Achard Jean Alexis Achard () (1807–1884) was a French painter. Biography Born in Voreppe, Isère, into a farming family, Jean Alexis Achard was self-taught and started his career as a clerk for a lawyer. He began his apprenticeship by copying pai ...

. 19th century Musée d'art et d'archéologie du Périgord - Adrien Dauzats - Vue de Tolède.jpg, ''View of Toledo'' by

Adrien Dauzats Adrien Dauzats (16 July 1804 – 18 February 1868) was a French landscape, genre painter and painter of Oriental subject matter. He travelled extensively throughout the Middle East and illustrated a number of books for the travel writer, Baron Tay ...

. 19th century William-Adolphe Bouguereau - Soul Carried to Heaven (c.1878).jpg, ''Soul Carried to Heaven'' by

William-Adolphe Bouguereau William-Adolphe Bouguereau (; 30 November 1825 – 19 August 1905) was a French academic painter. In his realistic genre paintings, he used mythological themes, making modern interpretations of classical subjects, with an emphasis on the female ...

. ca. 1878

Notes

Bibliography

* Édouard Galy, ''Catalogue du musée archéologique du département de la Dordogne'', Imprimerie Dupont et Cie, Périgueux, 186
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