The Musée Antoine Vivenel is the municipal museum of the city of

Compiègne Compiègne (; pcd, Compiène) is a commune in the Oise department in northern France. It is located on the river Oise. Its inhabitants are called ''Compiégnois''. Administration Compiègne is the seat of two cantons: * Compiègne-1 (with 19 ...

in northern

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, located at 2, rue d'Austerlitz, 60200 Compiègne. It was founded in 1839, following an important gift by Antoine Vivenel, architect and art collector. The museum has one of the largest collections of Greek ceramics in France after the

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, some of which come from the collections of

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, Napoleon's brother and Prince of

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, in

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. The museum also benefits from the deposits of sculpted blocks from the

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temple of Champlieu located about twenty kilometers south-east of the city. The museum also has Egyptian artifacts (including a children's mummy) and artifacts of ancient

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Collections

Paintings

* Jean Bassange, (17th century), ''Adoration of the Shepherds'', signed oil on canvas, 1,475 by 1,275. *

Langlois de Sézanne Claude Louis Langlois (13 June 1757 – c. 1845), known as Langlois de Sézanne, was a French portraitist and pastel artist. His portrait of Madame Morel is held by the Musée Antoine Vivenel, Compiègne. Born in Sézanne, he was the son of Clau ...

, (1757–1845 ?), Portrait of Madame Morel, pastel. * Léon Matthieu Cochereau, (1793–1817), ''Portrait of Monsieur Chatard'', left in 1925 by M. and Mme Léon Duchauvel.

Sculptures

* One of the 16 surviving

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, 10th century.Museum page & image
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Eugène Delaplanche Eugène Delaplanche (28 February 1836 – 10 January 1891) was a French sculptor, born at Belleville (Seine). Life He was a pupil of Duret, gained the ''Prix de Rome'' in 1864 (spending 1864–67 at the Villa Medici in Rome), and the medal of ...

, (1836–1891), ''Allegory of the Air'', bronze. * Auguste Joseph Peiffer, (1832–1886), ''Arab playing the mandolin'' and ''Arab playing the tambour''.

References

External links

Musée Vivenel
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