The Calvet Museum (, ) is the main museum in

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. Since the 1980s the collection has been split between two buildings, with the fine arts housed in an 18th-century hôtel particulier and a separate

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in the former chapel of the city's Jesuit college on rue de la République. It is one of the museums run by the

Fondation Calvet La Fondation Calvet is an art foundation in Avignon, France, named for Esprit Calvet, who left his collections and library to it in 1810. The foundation maintains several museums and two libraries, with support from the town. The original legac ...

. Its collections also include goldwork,

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, porcelain, tapestries, ironwork and other examples of the decorative arts, along with archaeology and Asian, Oceanic and African ethnography.

History

The hôtel de Villeneuve-Martignan

The museum is housed in a building on the site of the Livrée de Cambrai, named after its last inhabitant, cardinal

Pierre d'Ailly Pierre d'Ailly (; ; 13519 August 1420) was a French theologian, astrologer and cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church. Academic career D'Ailly was born in Compiègne in 1350 or 1351 of a prosperous bourgeois family. He studied in Paris at the Co ...

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. In 1719, it was sold to François-René de Villeneuve, marquis d'Arzeliers and lord of Martignan, in the

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.Joseph Girard, op cit, . In 1734, de Villeneuve's son Jacques-Ignace de Villeneuve decided to extend the building to designs by , but later changed his mind and razed the whole building in 1741, replacing it with a completely new one to designs by

Jean-Baptiste Franque Jean-Baptiste Franque (Villeneuve-lès-Avignon, February 1, 1683 - Avignon, March 26, 1758) was a French architect. He was the father of François II Franque and Jean-Pierre Franque, also architects, and therefore the father-in-law of the archit ...

.Joseph Girard, op cit, . Work on this new construction was only completed in 1749,Joseph Girard, op cit, . which was then bought in 1802 by the businessman Deleutre, who then rented it to the city authorities as a home for

Esprit Calvet __NOTOC__ Esprit Calvet (; 28 November 1728 – 25 July 1810) was a French physician and collector. Calvet came from a long established family in Avignon and was educated at the Jesuit college in the town. He studied medicine at the university ...

's collections. The authorities acquired it on 3 March 1833 to turn into a museum.Joseph Girard, op cit, . The hôtel de Villeneuve-Martignan was made a

monument historique () is a designation given to some national heritage sites in France. It may also refer to the state procedure in France by which national heritage protection is extended to a building, a specific part of a building, a collection of buildings, ...

on 1 October 1963.

Museum

A major collector and a

physiocrat Physiocracy (; from the Greek for "government of nature") is an economic theory developed by a group of 18th-century Age of Enlightenment French economists. They believed that the wealth of nations derived solely from the value of "land agricultu ...

by training, Esprit Calvet devoted his life to medicine and arts. In 1810 his will left his library, natural history collection and cabinet of antiquities to his birthplace of Avignon, along with the necessary funds to make them accessible as an independent institution. Napoleon I issued a decree on 9 April 1811 from the

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allowing Avignon's mayor to accept the legacy for and in the name of the city of Avignon. The resulting museum was named after him and housed his collection.

Collections

Paintings

French

= 16th and 17th centuries

= * : ''The Holy Family'' ; ''The Adoration of the Shepherds'' ; ''The Resurrection'' ; ''Lament over the Dead Christ''. *

Nicolas Mignard Nicolas Mignard (), also known as Mignard d’Avignon, (7 February 1606 (baptised) – 20 March 1668) was a French painter known for his religious and mythological scenes and portraits.Lada Nikolenko. "Mignard." Grove Art Online. Oxford Art O ...

: ''Saint Michel Defeating the Rebel Angels'' ; ''Saint Bruno at Prayer'' ; ''Vice-Legate Frédéric Sforza'' ; ''The Virgin Mary Granting the Scapular to Saint Simon Stock'' ; ''Pietà'' ; ''Self-Portrait''. * : ''Laban Seeking His Idols'' ; ''The Archangel Gabriel Appearing to Zacharias''. *

Pierre Dupuis Pierre Dupuis or Pierre Dupuys (3 March 1610 in Montfort-l'Amaury – 18 February 1682 in Paris) was a French painter. Dupuis was successful during his life and in 1646 he was appointed ''Peintre Ordinaire des Ecuries du Roi'' by his patron H ...

: ''Still Life with Vegetables and Apricots''. *

Pierre Mignard Pierre Mignard or Pierre Mignard I (; 17 November 1612 – 30 May 1695), called "Mignard le Romain" to distinguish him from his brother Nicolas Mignard, was a French painter known for his religious and mythological scenes and portraits. He was a ...

: ''Portrait of Henri de Forbin Maynier, baron d'Oppède'' ; ''Alexander Meets the Queen of the Amazons''. *

Pierre II Mignard Pierre II Mignard (20 February 1640 – 10 April 1725) was a French architect and painter. He was the son of painter Nicolas Mignard and the younger brother of Paul Mignard, a portrait painter. Biography Pierre II Mignard was born and died in ...

: ''Allegory of Spring'' ; ''Allegory of Summer'' ; ''Allegory of Autumn'' ; ''Allegory of Winter'' ; ''Apollo Flaying Marsyas'' ; ''Noli me tangere''. Simon de Châlons - Adoration des bergers.jpg, , ''Adoration of the Shepherds''. Nicolas Mignard-Vierge et saint Simon Stock.jpg,

, ''The Virgin Mary Granting the Scapular to Saint Simon Stock''. Reynaud Levieux-archange gabriel.jpg, , ''The Archangel Gabriel Appearing to Zacharias''. Pierre Mignard II - Printemps - Calvet.jpg,

, ''Allegory of Spring''.

= 18th century

= * Nicolas de Largillierre : ''Portrait of Pierre Parrocel''. *

Jean Raoux Jean Raoux (1677 – 10 February 1734), French painter, was born at Montpellier. After the usual course of training he became a member of the Academy in 1717 as an historical painter. His reputation had been previously established by the ac ...

: ''Young Woman Reading a Letter'' ; ''Silence, or Woman at a Window Drawing a Curtain''. *

Pierre Parrocel Pierre Parrocel (1664–1739) was a French painter of the late-Baroque period. Life He was born in Avignon to a large family of artists, including his uncle Joseph Parrocel and his father, Louis Parrocel. He was first instructed by his uncle, ...

: ''Resurrection''. *

Étienne Parrocel Étienne Parrocel known as Le Romain (Avignon, 8 January 1696 - Rome, 26 August or 12 January 1775 or 1776) was a French people, French Painting, painter working in Rome in the eighteenth century. Biography The son of and Jeanne Marie Périer ...

: ''St John the Baptist Proclaiming the Messiah'' ; ''Saint Camille de Lellis Presented to the Holy Trinity''. * Jean Valade : ''Marie-Anne de Montboissier-Beaufort-Canillac, marquise de Beaumont'' ; ''Portrait of Joseph François Xavier de Seytres''. * Jacques de Lajoue : ''Seascape, Calm Weather''. * : ''Sovereignty'' ; ''Portrait of Esprit Calvet'' ; ''The City of Avignon Restored to the Holy See''. *

Joseph Vernet Claude-Joseph Vernet (; 14 August 17143 December 1789) was a French painter. His son, Carle Vernet, was also a painter. Life and work Vernet was born in Avignon. When only fourteen years of age he aided his father, Antoine Vernet (1689–1753) ...

: ''Entry into a Seaport in Calm Weather'' ; ''The Italian Gondola'' ; ''Fresh Morning, Pleasure Party'' ; ''Sailing Ship Wrecked on the Rocks'' ; ''A Shepherdess in the Alps'' ; ''Morning on Land, the Fish in the River'' ; ''Midday on Land, Gale'' ; ''Morning at Sea, Fog'' ; ''Sea, Sunrise, Port with a Temple''. *

Joseph-Marie Vien Joseph-Marie Vien (sometimes anglicised as Joseph-Mary Wien; 18 June 1716 – 27 March 1809) was a French painter. He was the last holder of the post of Premier peintre du Roi, serving from 1789 to 1791. Biography He was born in Montpellier. P ...

: ''Jesus Presented in the Temple'' *

Jean-Baptiste Marie Pierre Jean-Baptiste Marie Pierre (6 March 1714 – 15 May 1789) was a French painter, draughtsman and administrator. Life He was a student of Charles-Joseph Natoire at the Académie royale de peinture et de sculpture and painted a self-portrait in ...

: ''Beheading of St John the Baptist'' *

Louis-Michel van Loo Louis-Michel van Loo (2 March 1707 – 20 March 1771) was a French people, French Painting, painter. Biography He studied under his father, the painter Jean-Baptiste van Loo, at Turin and Rome, and he won a prize at the ''Académie Royale d ...

: ''Portrait of Joseph Vernet''. *

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 ...

: ''Spring'' ; ''The Fontaine de Vaucluse'' ; ''Landscape with Ruins and a Fountain'' ; ''Herd in front of the Colisseum and the

Arch of Constantine The Arch of Constantine () is a triumphal arch in Rome dedicated to the emperor Constantine the Great. The arch was commissioned by the Roman Senate to commemorate Constantine's victory over Maxentius at the Battle of the Milvian Bridge in AD 312 ...

in Rome''. *

Jean-Baptiste Regnault Jean-Baptiste Regnault (; 9 October 1754 – 12 November 1829) was a French painter. Biography Regnault was born in Paris, and began life at sea in a merchant vessel. At the age of fifteen his talent attracted attention, and he was sent to ...

: ''The Centaur Chiron Educating Achilles''. *

Pierre Peyron Pierre is a masculine given name. It is a French form of the name Peter. Pierre originally meant "rock" or "stone" in French (derived from the Greek word πέτρος (''petros'') meaning "stone, rock", via Latin "petra"). It is a translation ...

: ''Curius Dentatus Refusing Gifts from the Samnite Ambassadors''. *

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 ...

: ''The Death of Joseph Bara''. *

Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun Élisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun (; ; 16 April 1755 – 30 March 1842), also known as Louise Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun or simply as Madame Le Brun, was a French painter who mostly specialized in portrait painting, in the late 18th and early 19t ...

: ''Portrait of Giuseppina Grassini''. Jean Raoux-Calvet.jpg,

, ''Young Woman Reading a Letter''. Pierre Parrocel-Résurrection du Christ.jpg,

, ''Resurrection''. Jean Valade-Portrait du marquis de Caumont.jpg, Jean Valade, ''Portrait of the marquis de Caumont''. Joseph Vernet-La bergère des Alpes.jpg,

, ''A Shepherdess in the Alps''. Vigée-Lebrun-Grassini.jpg,

, ''Portrait of Giuseppina Grassini''.

= 19th century

= *

Horace Vernet Émile Jean-Horace Vernet (; 30 June 178917 January 1863) more commonly known as simply Horace Vernet, was a French painter of battles, portraits, and Orientalist subjects. Biography Early career Vernet was born to Carle Vernet, another famo ...

: '' Joseph Vernet Tied to a Mast During a Storm'', oil on canvas, 1822 ; '' Mazepa and the Wolves'', oil on canvas, 1826 * Jean-Joseph Lacroix : ''The Legend of Christ of the Black Penitents''. *

Jean-Antoine Constantin Jean-Antoine Constantin (January 1756 - 9 January 1844) was a French painter. Biography Born in the vicinity of the Loubière, in Marseille, Jean-Antoine Constantin studied at the Academy of Painting in Marseille under the tutelage of Jean-Jose ...

: ''View of the Fontaine de Vaucluse''. *

François Marius Granet François Marius Granet (17 December 1775 – 21 November 1849) was a French painter. Biography François Marius Granet was born on 17 December 1775 in Aix-en-Provence; his father was a small builder. As a boy his strong desires led his parents ...

: ''Jacques de Molay Received into the Templars''. * Claude Marie Paul Dubufe : ''Apollo and Cyparissa''. *

Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot ( , , ; 16 July 1796 – 22 February 1875), or simply Camille Corot, was a French Landscape art, landscape and Portraitist, portrait painter as well as a printmaking, printmaker in etching. A pivotal figure in ...

: ''Site in Italy''. *

Jean-Joseph-Xavier Bidauld Jean-Joseph-Xavier Bidauld (10 April 1758 – 20 October 1846) was a French painter. A native of the city of Carpentras, Bidauld first studied painting with his elder brother, Jean-Pierre-Xavier Bidauld, Jean-Pierre-Xavier, in Lyons. In 1783 he ...

: '' Francis I at the Fontaine de Vaucluse''. *

Eugène Devéria Eugène François Marie Joseph Devéria (22 April 1805, in Paris – 3 February 1865, in Pau, Pyrénées-Atlantiques, Pau) was a French Romanticism, Romantic history painter, portraitist and muralist. Biography He was one of five children born ...

: ''Portrait of Calvet''. * Auguste-Barthélemy Glaize : ''Luca Signorelli Preparing to Paint His Son, Killed in a Duel at Cortona''. * D'après

Antoine-Jean Gros Antoine-Jean Gros (; 16 March 177125 June 1835) was a French painter of historical subjects. He was granted the title of Baron Gros in 1824. Gros studied under Jacques-Louis David in Paris and began an independent artistic career during the ...

: ''The Battle of Nazareth''. * Isidore Dagnan : ''View of Avignon and the pont Saint-Bénézet''. * : ''Caravaggio in His Studio''. *

Pierre Révoil Pierre Henri Révoil (12 June 1776 – 19 March 1842) was a French painter in the troubadour style. Biography He was born in Lyon. His father was a furrier. Although he was needed at home, his family allowed him to receive a proper education. ...

: ''Charles-Quint at the abbaye de Saint-Just''. *

Paul Huet Paul Huet (; 3 October 1803 – 8 January 1869) was a French painter and printmaker born in Paris. He studied under Gros and Guerin. He met the English painter Richard Parkes Bonington in the studio of Gros, where he studied irregularly from 18 ...

: ''General view of Avignon and Villeneuve-lès-Avignon from inside the fort Saint-André'' ; ''View of Avignon from the North Side''. *

Théodore Chassériau Théodore Chassériau (; ; September 20, 1819 – October 8, 1856) was a Dominican-born French Romantic painter noted for his portraits, historical and religious paintings, allegorical murals, and Orientalist images inspired by his travels to A ...

: ''Sleeping Bather''. *

Alfred Sisley Alfred Sisley (; ; 30 October 1839 – 29 January 1899) was an Impressionist landscape painter who was born and spent most of his life in France, but retained British citizenship. He was the most consistent of the Impressionists in his dedic ...

: ''The Church at Moret''. *

Armand Guillaumin Armand Guillaumin (; February 16, 1841 – June 26, 1927) was a French Impressionist painter and lithographer. Biography Early years Born Jean-Baptiste Armand Guillaumin in Paris, he worked at his uncle's lingerie shop while attending even ...

: ''The Pointe de la Baumette''. *

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, Vaucluse, Apt and later with Émile Lou ...

: ''Selfportrait, or Man with a Pipe''. * Pierre Grivolas : ''Flagellants in the 14th Century'' ; ''The Market in place Pie''. *

Victor Leydet Victor Leydet (1845–1908) was a French businessman, politician and novelist. He served as a member of the Senate of France from 1897 to 1908. Biography Early life Victor Leydet was born on 9 July 1845 in Aix-en-Provence. His father, Joseph Vi ...

: ''Before Mass'' ; ''Portrait of a Standing Young Man''. * : ''The Prodigal Son Guarding Pigs''. *

Clément Brun Gérard Clément-Brun (11 September 1865, in Avignon – 11 March 1920, in Avignon) was a French portrait and cityscape painter. Some sources give his year of birth as 1867 or 1868. Biography He began his studies at the École des Beaux-Arts ...

: ''Street in Villeneuve-lès-Avignon''. * : ''Burial of Saint Sebastian'', 1827. Vernet, Horace - Mazeppa and the Wolves - 1826.jpg,

, ''Mazeppa''. Jean-Joseph-Xavier Bidauld -François Ier à la fontaine de Vaucluse.jpg,

, ''Francis I at the Fontaine de Vaucluse''. Eugène Devéria - Portrait de Calvet Musée Calvet.jpg,

, ''Portrait of Calvet''. Théodore Chassériau-baigneuse endormie.jpg,

, ''Sleeping Bather''. Paul Huet-Vue d'Avignon.jpg,

, ''General view of Avignon and Villeneuve-lès-Avignon from inside the fort Saint-André''. Musée Calvet Sisley.jpg,

, ''The Church at Moret''.

= 20th century

= *

Émile Bernard Émile Henri Bernard (; 28 April 1868 – 16 April 1941) was a French Post-Impressionist painter and writer, who had artistic friendships with Vincent van Gogh, Paul Gauguin and Eugène Boch, and at a later time, Paul Cézanne. Most of his no ...

: ''Portrait of Paul Léautaud''. *

Pierre Bonnard Pierre Bonnard (; 3 October 186723 January 1947) was a French painter, illustrator and printmaker, known especially for the stylized decorative qualities of his paintings and his bold use of color. A founding member of the Post-Impressionist gr ...

: ''Winter Day''. *

Chaïm Soutine Chaïm Soutine (; ; ; 13 January 1893 – 9 August 1943) was a French painter of Belarusian-Jewish origin of the School of Paris, who made a major contribution to the Expressionist movement while living and working in Paris. Inspired by clas ...

: ''The Idiot''; ''Bad Luck''; ''The Stripe''; ''View of a Village, Céret in Roussillon'' *

Bernard Buffet Bernard Buffet (; 10 July 1928 – 4 October 1999) was a French painter, printmaker, and sculptor. An extremely prolific artist, he produced a varied and extensive body of work. His style was exclusively figurative and is often classified as Exp ...

: ''Holy Face''. *

Auguste Chabaud Auguste Chabaud (3 October 1882 – 23 May 1955) was a French painter and sculptor. Biography He was born in Nimes. At the age of fourteen Chabaud joined the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Avignon. In 1899 he went to Paris to continue his artistic trai ...

: ''Big Blue Bathing Woman'' ; ''Les Arènes''. *

Maurice Denis Maurice Denis (; 25 November 1870 – 13 November 1943) was a French painter, decorative artist, and writer. An important figure in the transitional period between impressionism and modern art, he is associated with '' Les Nabis'', symbolism, ...

: ''Motherhood in White''. *

George Desvallières George Desvallières (; 1861–1950) was a French painter. A native of Paris, Desvallières was a great-grandson of academician Gabriel-Marie Legouvé, and received a religion, religious upbringing. He studied at the Académie Julian with Tony ...

: ''Portrait of Madame Emile Desvallières''. *

Albert Gleizes Albert Gleizes (; 8 December 1881 – 23 June 1953) was a French artist, theoretician, philosopher, a self-proclaimed founder of Cubism and an influence on the School of Paris. Albert Gleizes and Jean Metzinger wrote the first major treatise on ...

: ''Motherhood''; ''Riverbank''. * Alfred Lesbros : ''Street in Villeneuve-lès-Avignon'' ; ''Footing''. * : ''Portrait of Jules Belleudy in his Office''. * René Seyssaud : ''River in Autumn''. *

Ibrahim Shahda Ibrahim Shahda (, Al-Azizya – , Aix-en-Provence) was a figurative French painter born in Egypt. Biography Born in Al-Azizya, Egypt, Shahda studied at the Cairo Fine Arts Academy in 1947, aged 18. He worked with French professor and painte ...

: ''Woman in Black'' (''La Femme en noir''). * : ''Portrait of Joseph Rignault Aged Twenty''. * Louis-Mathieu Verdilhan : ''View of the Vieux-Port in Marseille''. *

Maurice de Vlaminck Maurice de Vlaminck (; 4 April 1876 - 11 October 1958) was a French painter. Along with André Derain and Henri Matisse, he is considered one of the principal figures in the Fauve movement, a group of modern artists who from 1904 to 1908 were ...

: ''On Zinc''. *

Joe Downing Joe Downing (June 26, 1903 – October 16, 1975) was an American stage, TV and B-movie actor who made more than 70 appearances. Career Downing's early acting experience included work with the Theatre Guild, particularly dancing in ''The ...

: ''Painting''. Chaïm Soutine - Vue d'un village - Calvet.jpg,

, ''View of a Village, Céret in Roussillon''. Maurice Denis-Maternité-Calvet.jpg,

, ''Motherhood in White''. Alfred Lesbros - rue à Villeneuve lès Avignon-Calvet.jpg, Alfred Lesbros, ''Street in Villeneuve-lès-Avignon''. Mathieu Verdilhan-Vieux Port-Calvet.jpg, Louis-Mathieu Verdilhan, ''View of the Vieux-port in Marseille''.

Italian

= 16th and 17th centuries

= *

Filippo Abbiati Filippo Abbiati (1640–1715) was an Italian painter of the early-Baroque period, active in Lombardy and Turin, together with Andrea Lanzani and Stefano Maria Legnani, he was a prominent Mannerism, mannerist painters from the School of Lombardy. B ...

: ''The Virgin Mary Appearing to the Bishops at the Council of Ephesus'', sketch for a large painting for santa Maria del Carmine church in

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. * Paolo Biancucci : ''The Virgin Mary Presenting the Rosary to Saint Dominic, with Saints Catherine of Sienna, Antony of Padua and Francis of Assisi Adoring the Christ Child''. *

Vincenzo Campi Vincenzo Campi (; c.1530/1535–1591) was a 16th-century Italians, Italian painter working in Cremona during the Late Renaissance. Campi is best known as one of the first Northern Italy, northern Italian artists to work in the Flemish painting, F ...

: ''Peasants' Meal'' *

Angelo Caroselli Angelo Caroselli or Carosèlli (11 February 1585 – 8 April 1652) was an Italian painter of the Baroque period, active mainly in his native Rome. He created religious works, allegories, portraits as well as genre art, genre scenes in the vein of ...

: ''Young Man with a Skull, Vanitas''. * : ''The Painter's Easel'' *

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, Rome, Florence, and Venice, before spending a decade in Spain. Early l ...

: ''The Death of Lucretia''. *

Rutilio Manetti Rutilio di Lorenzo Manetti (c. 1571 – 22 July 1639) was an Italian painter of late-Mannerism or proto-Baroque, active mainly in Siena. Biography He was influenced and/or taught by the local artists Francesco Vanni and Ventura Salimbeni. He is ...

; ''Saint Jerome Supported by Angels''. *

Giovanni Maria Morandi Giovanni Maria Morandi (30 April 1622 – 18 February 1717) was an Italian Baroque painter, known for altarpieces and portraits. Biography He was born in Florence. He studied art with Orazio Fidani and Giovanni Bilivert. Very few works dat ...

: ''Portrait of cardinal Marcello Durazzo''. * Pietro Negri : ''Nero and Agrippina''. *

Salvator Rosa Salvator Rosa (1615 – March 15, 1673) is best known today as an Italian Baroque painter, whose romanticized landscapes and history paintings, often set in dark and untamed nature, exerted considerable influence from the 17th century into the ...

: ''Landscape with Two Figures''. *

Giorgio Vasari Giorgio Vasari (30 July 1511 – 27 June 1574) was an Italian Renaissance painter, architect, art historian, and biographer who is best known for his work ''Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculptors, and Architects'', considered the ideol ...

: ''Abraham Meets Melchizedec''. *

Pietro della Vecchia Pietro della Vecchia, Pietro della Vècchia or Pietro Vècchia, formerly incorrectly called Pietro MuttoniBernard Aikema. "Vecchia, Pietro della."Grove Art Online. Oxford Art Online. Oxford University Press. Web. 5 March 2018 (1603 in Vicenza – ...

: ''Christ and the Woman Caught in Adultery''.

= 18th century

= *

Faustino Bocchi Faustino Bocchi (1659–1742) was an Italian painter, active in Brescia, who specialized in bizarre paintings of dwarf (mythology), dwarfs. Biography He was son of Giacomo and Giulia Faioni, and was born in Brescia on June 17, 1659. It is not ...

: ''Dwarf Playing the Violin''. *

Domenico Brandi Domenico Brandi (1683–1736) was an Italian painter, active in his native Naples, where he painted still lifes of birds and animals, as well as pastoral landscapes (vedute) and a bambocciata. He was the son of the painter Gaetano Brandi, and Do ...

: ''A Deer Pursued by Dogs''. * : ''Saint Peter Freed from Prison by an Angel''. *

Giovanni Paolo Panini Giovanni Paolo, also known as Gian Paolo Panini or Pannini (17 June 1691 – 21 October 1765), was an Italian Baroque painter and architect who worked in Rome and is primarily known as one of the ''vedutisti'' ("view painters"). As a painter, Pani ...

: ''The Vow of Marcus Curtius '', ''Belisarius Begging for Alms''. *

Francesco Zuccarelli Giacomo Francesco Zuccarelli (commonly known as Francesco Zuccarelli, ; 15 August 1702 – 30 December 1788) was an Italian artist of the late Baroque or Rococo period. He is considered to be the most important landscape painter to have emer ...

: ''Landscape with Peasants''. Della Vecchia-La femme adultère.jpg,

, ''Christ and the Woman Taken in Adultery''. Luca-Giordano-Musée Calvet mort-de-Lucrèce.jpg,

, ''The Death of Lucretia''. Giovanni Maria Morandi portrait du cardinal Marcello Durazzo, 1686 Musée Calvet.jpg,

, ''Portrait of cardinal Marcello Durazzo''. Pannini-bélissaire.jpg,

, ''Belisarius Begging for Alms''.

Spanish

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 an ...

: ''Ecce Homo''.

Northern Europe

* Johann Koerbecke : ''Resurrection'', 1457, a rare panel from a broken-up

retable A retable is a structure or element placed either on or immediately behind and above the altar or communion table of a church. At the minimum, it may be a simple shelf for candles behind an altar, but it can also be a large and elaborate struct ...

originally in Marienfeld Abbey. * Germany (15th century) : ''Crucified Martyrs'' ; ''Martyrs Whipped and Wearing Crowns of Thorns''. *

Jan Frans van Bloemen Jan Frans van Bloemen (baptized 12 May 1662 - buried 13 June 1749)Vici 1974, pp. 222, 225. was a Flemish landscape painter mainly active in Rome. Here he was able to establish himself as the leading painter of views ( vedute) of the Roman count ...

: ''Landscape with Bathers'' ; ''Landscape with Goatherds''. * Pieter Bout : ''Busy River Landscape''. * Salomon de Bray : ''Saint Peter Delivered from Prison''. *

Joos van Craesbeeck Joos van Craesbeeck (''c''. 1605/06 – ''c''. 1660) was a Flemish baker and a painter who played an important role in the development of Flemish genre painting in the mid-17th century through his tavern scenes and dissolute portraits. His genre ...

: ''The Smoker and Death''. * After

Albrecht Dürer Albrecht Dürer ( , ;; 21 May 1471 – 6 April 1528),Müller, Peter O. (1993) ''Substantiv-Derivation in Den Schriften Albrecht Dürers'', Walter de Gruyter. . sometimes spelled in English as Durer or Duerer, was a German painter, Old master prin ...

: ''Christ Bearing the Cross''. *

Cornelis Dusart Cornelis Dusart (April 24, 1660 – October 1, 1704) was a Dutch genre painter, drawer (artists), and printmaker. He was born in Haarlem. Dusart was a pupil of Adriaen van Ostade Adriaen van Ostade (baptized as Adriaen Jansz Hendricx 10 Dec ...

: ''Seated Pipe-Smoker''. * After

Jan Brueghel the Elder Jan Brueghel (also Bruegel or Breughel) the Elder ( , ; ; 1568 – 13 January 1625) was a Flemish painting, Flemish painter and Draughtsmanship, draughtsman. He was the younger son of the eminent Dutch and Flemish Renaissance painting, Flemish ...

: ''Procession at a Peasant Wedding''. *

Pieter Brueghel the Younger Pieter Brueghel (also Bruegel or Breughel) the Younger ( , ; ; between 23 May and 10 October 1564 – between March and May 1638) was a Flemish painting, Flemish painter known for numerous copies after his father Pieter Bruegel the Elder's ...

(studio) : ''Village Festival or Kermesse with a Play and a Procession'' * Pieter Brueghel the Younger, ''The Parable of the Misers''. * Attributed to Jacob van Oost the Elder : ''Portrait of a Young Man''. * Attributed to

Lucas Franchoys the Younger Lucas Franchoys the Younger or Lucas Franchoys IIalternative spellings of name: Lucas Franchois, Lucas François, Louis Franchoys (28 June 1616 in Mechelen – 3 April 1681 in Mechelen) was a Southern Netherlands, Flemish Baroque painter from Mec ...

: ''Portrait of a Churchman''. * Pieter Hardimé : ''Flower Bouquet in a Vase on a Stone Ledge''. *

Gerard Hoet Gerard Hoet (; 22 August 1648 – 2 December 1733) was a Dutch Golden Age painter and engraver. Biography Gerard Hoet trained with his father and brother who were glass painters, and Warnard van Rijsen, who lived in Zaltbommel, and who hi ...

: ''Armida Preparing to Pursue Rinaldo''. *

Abraham Hondius Abraham Danielsz. Hondius (about 1631 – 17 September 1691) was a Dutch Golden Age painter known for his depictions of animals. Career Hondius was born in Rotterdam. He was the son of a city stonemason, Daniel Abramsz de Hondt. Hondius trai ...

: ''Dogs Attacking a Heron''. *

Gérard de Lairesse Gerard or Gérard (de) Lairesse (; 11 September 1641 – June 1711) was a Dutch Golden Age painter and art theorist. His broad range of skills included music, poetry, and theatre. De Lairesse was influenced by the Perugian Cesare Ripa and F ...

: ''Jaël and Sisera''. * Anthonie de Lorme (architecture) and Anthonie Palamedesz. (figures) : ''Protestant Church Interior with Figures''. *

Jan Miel Jan Miel (1599 in Beveren, Beveren-Waas – April 1664 in Turin) was a Southern Netherlands, Flemish painter and engraver who was active in Italy. He initially formed part of the circle of Dutch and Flemish genre painting, genre painters in R ...

: ''Shepherds and Their Flock in a Mountainous Landscape'' *

Jan Miense Molenaer Jan Miense Molenaer (1610 – buried 19 September 1668) was a Dutch Golden Age genre painter whose style was a precursor to Jan Steen's work during Dutch Golden Age painting. He shared a studio with his wife, Judith Leyster, also a genre paint ...

: ''The Foot Operation''. *

Michiel van Musscher Michiel is a Dutch masculine given name equivalent to Michael and a Venetian surname. Given name * Michiel Andrieszoon (died 1684), Dutch pirate * Michiel Bartman (born 1967), Dutch rower * Michiel Borstlap (born 1966), Dutch pianist and comp ...

: ''A Lute Lesson Interrupted''. * Eglon van der Neer : ''Portrait of a Man in Louis XIV Costume''. * Aernout van der Neer : ''View of a Village by Moonlight''. * Cornelis van Poelenburgh : ''Landscape with Mercury Sending Argus to Sleep with his Flute''. * Chistiaan van Pol ; ''Study of a Lilac Branch'' ; ''Study of a Variegated Rose Stalk''. * Hendrik van Steenwijk II : ''Church Interior with Figures'', oil on copper *

Dominicus van Tol Dominicus van Tol (also known as Domenicus van Tol) (c.1635–1676) was a Dutch Golden Age painter. Biography Van Tol was born in Bodegraven. He was a nephew of Gerard Dou and his works often draw comparison with those of his uncle.

: ''Monk Reading with a Pen in his Hand''. * Jan van de Venne : ''Two Fantasy Heads, Profile''. * Jan Peeter Verdussen : ''The Blacksmith's Home''. *

Jan Weenix Jan Weenix or Joannis Wenix (between 1641/164919 September 1719 (buried)) was a Dutch painter. He was trained by his father, Jan Baptist Weenix, together with his cousin Melchior d'Hondecoeter. Like his father, he painted various subjects, but ...

: ''Child and Dog at a Window, Trompe-l’œil''. * Matthijs Wulfraet : ''Two Smokers''. Cornelis Dusart - Fumeur - Musée Calvet.jpg,

, ''Seated Pipe-Smoker''. Jan Brueghel (I) - Cortège d'une noce paysanne - Calvet.jpg, After

, ''Procession at a Peasant Wedding''. Musée Calvet Jan-Weenix.jpg,

, ''Child and Dog at a Window, Trompe-l’œil''. Michiel van Musscher - Leçon de luth-Musée Calvet.jpg,

, ''A Lute Lesson Interrupted''. Jan Frans van Bloemen - paysage aux chevriers - Calvet.jpg,

, ''Landscape with Goatherds''.

Sculpture

French

= 15th to 18th century

= * ''Virgin of Pity'', stone with traces of paint. * ''Child with a Dog'', white marble with traces of paint * ''Tomb of La Palice'' : alabaster representations of Wisdom, Justice and Strength from the tomb of Jacques II de Chabannes de La Palice, recovered from his castle chapel after the tomb's destruction in the French Revolution; the representation of the fourth cardinal virtue, Temperance, is lost * Jean-Baptiste Guillermin : ''Christ on the Cross with a Skull'', elephant ivory crucifix from the chapel of the black penitents in Avignon.

= 19th century

= *

Francisque Joseph Duret Francisque Joseph Duret (; 19 October 1804 – 26 May 1865) was a French sculptor, son and pupil of François-Joseph Duret (1732–1816). Life and career Before becoming a sculptor, Francisque Duret had shown interest in pursuing a career in thea ...

: ''Orestes'', carrara marble bust * Victor-Étienne Simyan : ''Etruscan Art'', marble with traces of bronzing. *

Camille Claudel Camille Rosalie Claudel (; 8 December 1864 19 October 1943) was a French sculptor known for her figurative works in bronze and marble. She died in relative obscurity, but later gained recognition for the originality and quality of her work. The ...

: ''Paul Claudel as a Young Roman'', bronze. * : ''Joseph Bara'' and ''Augustin-Agricol Viala'', two marble replicas of the busts at the La Flèche military academy. * : ''The Death of Cato Utica'', plaster. * : ''Sleeping Harvester'', marble. *

James Pradier James Pradier (born Jean-Jacques Pradier, ; 23 May 1790 – 4 June 1852) was a Genevan-born French sculptor best known for his work in the neoclassical style. Life and work Born in Geneva (then the Republic of Geneva), Pradier was the son of a ...

: ''Cassandra Taking Refuge at the Foot of the Altar'', marble. *

Jean-Joseph Espercieux Jean-Joseph Espercieux (22 July 1757 in Marseille – 6 July 1840 in Paris) was a French sculptor. Life A carpenter's son, he moved to Paris in 1776 to study in the studio of Charles-Antoine Bridan and (on an irregular basis) those of Jean-Jo ...

: ''Greek Woman Preparing to get into a Bath'', marble. * Jules Cavelier : ''The Novice'', marble. * Jean-Louis Brian : ''Mercury'', plaster ; ''Faun'', marble Veray-Musée Calvet.jpg, Louis Veray, ''Sleeping Harvester''. James Pradier-Cassandre.jpg,

, ''Cassandra Taking Refuge at the Foot of the Altar''. Jean-Joseph Espercieux-Femme grecque.jpg,

, ''Greek Woman Preparing to get into a Bath''. Jean-louis Brian-Faune.jpg, Jean-Louis Brian, ''Faun'' (1841). Camille Claudel-Paul Claudel-Calvet.jpg,

, ''Paul Claudel as a Young Roman''.

Northern Europe

Officier et soldat romain - Calvaire - Calvet

* Anonymous, ''Officer and Roman soldier'', early 16th century, high-relief in painted and gilded black walnut, probably from an altarpiece of the crucifixion * Anonymous, ''Saint Michael Killing a Dragon'', gilded and painted limewood

Italian

Francesco Laurana Francesco Laurana, also known as Francesco de la Vrana (; c. 1430 – before 12 March 1502) was a Dalmatian sculptor and medallist. He is considered both a Croatian and an Italian sculptor. Though born in the territory of the Republic of Venic ...

, ''Bust of a Child'', marble with traces of paint and gilding. *

Pietro Torrigiano Pietro Torrigiano (24 November 1472 – July/August 1528) was an Italian Renaissance sculptor from Florence, who had to flee the city after breaking Michelangelo's nose. He then worked abroad, and died in prison in Spain. He was important in ...

: ''Head of Christ as Saviour of the World'', bronze. * Anonymous, ''Ambling Horse'', bronze with brown patina

Prints and Drawings

It includes leaves by artists from most of the French and Italian schools as well as a smaller number of Spanish and North European works. Northern artists in the collection include

Hendrik Goltzius Hendrick Goltzius (, ; born Goltz; January or February 1558 – 1 January 1617) was a German-born Dutch printmaker, draftsman, and painter. He was the leading Dutch engraver of the early Baroque period, or Northern Mannerism, lauded for his s ...

Jan van Goyen Jan Josephszoon van Goyen (; 13 January 1596 – 27 April 1656) was a Dutch landscape painter. The scope of his landscape subjects was very broad as he painted forest landscapes, marine paintings, river landscapes, beach scenes, winter landscap ...

and

Raphael Mengs Anton Raphael Mengs (12 March 1728 – 29 June 1779) was a German Neoclassicism, Neoclassical painter. Early life Mengs was born on 12 March 1728, at Ústí nad Labem in the Kingdom of Bohemia, the son of Ismael Mengs, a Danish-born painter wh ...

, whilst Spanish ones include

Vincenzo Carducci Vincenzio Carduccio (in Spanish, sometimes ''Vicencio'' or Vicente Carducho; 1576 or 1578–1638) was an Italian painter who spent his career in Spain. Education and training He was born in Florence and was trained as a painter by hi ...

and

Juan de Valdés Leal Juan de Valdés Leal (4 May 1622 – 15 October 1690) was a Spanish painter and etcher of the Baroque era. Career Valdés was born in Seville in 1622. He became a painter, sculptor, and architect. By his twenties, he was studying under Anton ...

. French artists represented include

Le Lorrain Le Lorrain (; Martinican Creole: ) is a town and commune in the French overseas region and department of Martinique Martinique ( ; or ; Kalinago language, Kalinago: or ) is an island in the Lesser Antilles of the West Indies, in the ...

Eustache Le Sueur Eustache Le Sueur or Lesueur (; 19 November 161730 April 1655) was a French artist and one of the founders of the French Academy of Painting. He is known primarily for his paintings of religious subjects. He was a leading exponent of the neocl ...

Antoine Watteau Jean-Antoine Watteau (, , ; baptised 10 October 1684died 18 July 1721) Alsavailablevia Oxford Art Online (subscription needed). was a French Painting, painter and Drawing, draughtsman whose brief career spurred the revival of interest in colour ...

François Boucher François Boucher ( , ; ; 29 September 1703 – 30 May 1770) was a French painter, draughtsman and etcher, who worked in the Rococo style. Boucher is known for his idyllic and voluptuous paintings on classical themes, decorative allegories ...

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 Bou ...

Jean-Marc Nattier Jean-Marc Nattier (; 17 March 1685 – 7 November 1766) was a French Painting, painter. He was born in Paris, the second son of Marc Nattier (1642–1705), a portrait painter, and of Marie Courtois (1655–1703), a miniaturist. He is noted for hi ...

Auguste Rodin François Auguste René Rodin (; ; 12 November 184017 November 1917) was a French sculptor generally considered the founder of modern sculpture. He was schooled traditionally and took a craftsman-like approach to his work. Rodin possessed a u ...

Honoré Daumier Honoré-Victorin Daumier (; February 26, 1808 – February 10 or 11, 1879) was a French painter, sculptor, and printmaker, whose many works offer commentary on the social and political life in France, from the July Revolution, Revolution of 1830 ...

Jean-François Millet Jean-François Millet (; 4 October 1814 – 20 January 1875) was a French artist and one of the founders of the Barbizon school in rural France. Millet is noted for his paintings of peasant farmers and can be categorized as part of the Realis ...

Eugène Boudin Eugène Louis Boudin (; 12 July 1824 – 8 August 1898) was one of the first French landscape painters to paint outdoors. Boudin was a marine painter, and expert in the rendering of all that goes upon the sea and along its shores. His pastels, ...

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec Count, ''Comte'' Henri Marie Raymond de Toulouse-Lautrec-Monfa (24 November 1864 – 9 September 1901), known as Toulouse-Lautrec (), was a French painter, printmaker, draughtsman, caricaturist, and illustrator whose immersion in the colour ...

Berthe Morisot Berthe Marie Pauline Morisot (; 14 January 1841 – 2 March 1895) was a French painter, printmaker and a member of the circle of painters in Paris who became known as the Impressionists. In 1864, Morisot exhibited for the first time in the ...

Paul Cézanne Paul Cézanne ( , , ; ; ; 19 January 1839 – 22 October 1906) was a French Post-Impressionism, Post-Impressionist painter whose work introduced new modes of representation, influenced avant-garde artistic movements of the early 20th century a ...

Auguste Renoir Pierre-Auguste Renoir (; ; 25 February 1841 – 3 December 1919) was a French people, French artist who was a leading painter in the development of the Impressionism, Impressionist style. As a celebrator of beauty and especially femininity, fe ...

Henri-Edmond Cross Henri-Edmond Cross (; 20 May 1856 – 16 May 1910), born Henri-Edmond-Joseph Delacroix (), was a French painter and printmaker. He is most acclaimed as a master of Neo-Impressionism and he played an important role in shaping the second phase ...

Édouard Vuillard Jean-Édouard Vuillard (; 11 November 186821 June 1940) was a French painter, decorative artist, and printmaker. From 1891 through 1900, Vuillard was a member of the avant garde artistic group Les Nabis, creating paintings that assembled areas ...

Georges Rouault Georges-Henri Rouault (; 27 May 1871, Paris - 13 February 1958, Paris) was a French painter, draughtsman, and printmaker, whose work is often associated with Fauvism and Expressionism. Childhood and education Rouault was born into a poor famil ...

Albert Marquet Albert Marquet (; 27 March 1875 – 14 June 1947) was a French painter. He initially became one of the Fauve painters and a lifelong friend of Henri Matisse. Marquet subsequently painted in a more naturalistic style, primarily landscapes, bu ...

Marc Chagall Marc Chagall (born Moishe Shagal; – 28 March 1985) was a Russian and French artist. An early modernism, modernist, he was associated with the School of Paris, École de Paris, as well as several major art movement, artistic styles and created ...

André Lhote André Lhote (5 July 1885 – 24 January 1962) was a French Cubist painter of figure subjects, portraits, landscapes, and still life. He was also active and influential as a teacher and writer on art. Early life and education Lhote was bor ...

, Léonard Foujita and

Jean Fautrier Jean Fautrier (; May 16, 1898 – July 21, 1964) was a French painter, illustrator, printmaker, and sculptor. He was one of the most important practitioners of Tachisme. Early life Jean Fautrier was born in Paris in 1898. He was given his unwed ...

. Italian artists include

Domenico Beccafumi Domenico di Pace Beccafumi (1486May 18, 1551) was an Italian Renaissance-Mannerist painter active predominantly in Siena. He is considered one of the last undiluted representatives of the Sienese school of painting. Biography Domenico was born ...

Lorenzo Lotto Lorenzo Lotto (c. 1480 – 1556/57) was an Italian Renaissance painter, draughtsman, and illustrator, traditionally placed in the Venetian school, though much of his career was spent in other north Italian cities. He painted mainly altarpie ...

Baccio Bandinelli Baccio Bandinelli (also called Bartolomeo Brandini; 12 November 1493 – shortly before 7 February 1560), was an Italian Renaissance sculptor, draughtsman, and painter. Biography Bandinelli was the son of a prominent Florentine goldsmith, ...

Daniele da Volterra Daniele Ricciarelli (; 15094 April 1566), better known as Daniele da Volterra (, ), was a Mannerism, Mannerist List of Italian painters, Italian painter and sculpture, sculptor. He is best remembered for his association with Michelangelo. Sev ...

Il Romanino Girolamo Romani, known as Romanino ( – ), was an Italian Renaissance, Italian High Renaissance painter active in the Veneto and Lombardy, near Brescia. His long career brought forth several different styles. Biography Romani was born in Bre ...

Paolo Veronese Paolo Caliari (152819 April 1588), known as Paolo Veronese ( , ; ), was an Italian Renaissance painter based in Venice, known for extremely large history paintings of religion and mythology, such as ''The Wedding at Cana (Veronese), The Wedding ...

Tintoretto Jacopo Robusti (late September or early October 1518Bernari and de Vecchi 1970, p. 83.31 May 1594), best known as Tintoretto ( ; , ), was an Italian Renaissance painter of the Venetian school. His contemporaries both admired and criticized th ...

Jacopo Zucchi Jacopo Zucchi (c. 1541– c. 1590) was a Florence, Florentine painter of the Mannerism, Mannerist style, active in Florence and Rome. His training began in the studio of Giorgio Vasari, and he participated in the decoration of the Studiolo of Fra ...

Taddeo Zuccaro Taddeo Zuccaro (or Zuccari) (1 September 15292 September 1566) was an Italian painter, one of the most popular members of the Roman mannerist school. Biography Zuccaro was born in Sant'Angelo in Vado, near Urbino, the son of Ottaviano Zuccaro, ...

Il Garofalo Benvenuto Tisi (; 1481September 6, 1559), also known as Il Garofalo (), was a Late-Renaissance-Mannerist Italian painter of the School of Ferrara. Garofalo's career began attached to the court of the Duke d'Este. His early works have been descr ...

Agostino Carracci Agostino Carracci ( , , ; also Caracci; 16 August 1557 – 22 March 1602) was an Italian painter, printmaker, tapestry designer, and art teacher. He was, together with his brother, Annibale Carracci, and cousin, Ludovico Carracci, one of the fo ...

Federico Barocci Federico Barocci (also written Barozzi) ( – 30 September 1612) was an Italian Renaissance painter and printmaker. His original name was Federico Fiori, and he was nicknamed Il Baroccio. His work was highly esteemed and influential, and foresha ...

Mattia Preti Mattia Preti (24 February 1613 – 3 January 1699) was an Italian Baroque artist who worked in Italy and Malta. He was appointed a Member of the Order of Saint John. Life Born in the small town of Taverna in Calabria, Preti was called ''Il Ca ...

Domenico Fetti Domenico Fetti (also spelled Feti) ( – 16 April 1623) was an Italian Baroque painter who was active mainly in Rome, Mantua and Venice. Biography Born in Rome to a little-known painter, Pietro Fetti, Domenico is said to have apprenticed ini ...

Guercino Giovanni Francesco Barbieri (February 8, 1591 – December 22, 1666),Miller, 1964 better known as (il) Guercino (), was an Italian Baroque painter and draftsman from Cento in the Emilia region, who was active in Rome and Bologna. The vigorous n ...

Alessandro Algardi Alessandro Algardi (July 31, 1598 – June 10, 1654) was an Italian high-Baroque sculptor active almost exclusively in Rome. In the latter decades of his life, he was, along with Francesco Borromini and Pietro da Cortona, one of the major rivals ...

Luigi Garzi Luigi Garzi (1638–1721) was an Italian painter of the Baroque period whose style was strongly influenced by the work of the Bolognese painter Guido Reni. Biography He was born in Pistoia. He started learning from a poorly known landscape paint ...

Francesco Furini Francesco Furini (c. 1600 (or 1603) – August 19, 1646) was an Italian Baroque painter of Florence, noted for his sensual sfumato style in paintings of both secular and religious subjects. Biography He was born in Florence to an artistic fa ...

Pier Francesco Mola Pier Francesco Mola, called Il Ticinese (9 February 1612 – 13 May 1666) was an Italian painter of the High Baroque, mainly active around Rome. Biography Mola was born in Coldrerio (now in Ticino, Switzerland).''Ecstasy in the Wilderness: Pier ...

Daniele Crespi Daniele Crespi (159819 July 1630) was an Italian painter and draughtsman. He is regarded as one of the most original artists working in Milan in the 1620s. He broke away from the exaggerated manner of Lombard Mannerism in favour of an early Bar ...

Giovanni Niccolò Servandoni Jean-Nicolas Servan, also known as Giovanni Niccolò Servandoni (2 May 1695 – 19 January 1766) was an Italian decorator, architect, scene-painter, firework designer and trompe-l'œil specialist. He was born in Florence, the son of a French ...

and

Amedeo Modigliani Amedeo Clemente Modigliani (; ; 12 July 1884 – 24 January 1920) was an Italian painter and sculptor of the École de Paris who worked mainly in France. He is known for portraits and nudes in a modern art, modern style characterized by a surre ...

Tapestries and furniture

This part of the collection includes: * ''David and Bathsheba'', tapestry, Flemish, early 16th century, wool and silk with gold and silver thread * Chest with allegories of the Three Theological Virtues (Faith, Hope, Charity) and the Four Cardinal Virtues (Strength, Justice, Wisdom, Temperance), northern French, early 16th century walnut, oak and cherrywood. * Cabinet of curiosities with twelve medallions of the life of the prophet Daniel from the

Book of Daniel The Book of Daniel is a 2nd-century BC biblical apocalypse with a 6th-century BC setting. It is ostensibly a narrative detailing the experiences and Prophecy, prophetic visions of Daniel, a Jewish Babylonian captivity, exile in Babylon ...

, painted by

Frans II Francken Frans Francken the Younger (1581, Antwerp – 6 May 1642, Antwerp) was a Flemish painter and the best-known and most prolific member of the large Francken family of artists.

, dated 1620 on its reverse, from the Puech collection. Key : 1- Daniel and King Cyrus Before those Sacrificing 2- Cyrus Adores the God Bel 3- Daniel Spreading Ashes 4- The Gate of Bel's Sanctuary Sealed by Royal Decree 5- Night Ceremonies by the Priests of Bel 6- Daniel Revealing the Priests' Secret Ceremonies to King Cyrus 7- King Cyrus Arresting the Priests of Bel 8- Daniel Throws Balls into the Dragon's Mouth 9- Habakkuk Preparing to give Provisions to the Harvesters 10- Habakkuk Rescuing Daniel from the Lions' Den 11- Cyrus Sees Daniel Safe in the Lions' Den 12- The Lions Devouring Daniel's Tormentors

Egyptian archaeology

The Egyptian section consists of Esprit Calvet's collection along with that of Marius Clément from Marseille and other purchases, including: * sycamore anthropoid sarcophagus of Ânkh-pa-in-di-is (''honourable mistress of the house''), with paint and plaster, probably from Thebes, 23rd Dynasty. Its interior shows the goddess

Nut Nut often refers to: * Nut (fruit), fruit composed of a hard shell and a seed * Nut (food), a dry and edible fruit or seed, including but not limited to true nuts * Nut (hardware), fastener used with a bolt Nut, NUT or Nuts may also refer to: A ...

as a Libyan-featured woman in profile in a long flowing tunic and a wig; * alabaster canopic jar in the form of a head of Amset, with the name of Iahmès, 26th Dynasty; * a family ex-voto of Yaï (director of the shipyards), carved with images of the dead man and members of his family such as his wife (singer to the god Sobek), 13th Dynasty; * limestone offering table of Harsiési and Pa-di-Mout, probably from Abydos, Egypt, Abydos, 26th Dynasty, Sais, Egypt, Sait period; * ochre stone hemispherical medallion of the head of Ammon with hair bound by a band and decorated all over with flowers or vines, 1st century CE, Gallo-Roman, discovered at Caderousse and offered to Calvet by the Christian Doctrine Fathers (he was their doctor until the congregation was dispersed) ; * stela raised by Setaou, viceroy of Nubia, Ramses II, with a funerary cult scene at the top with Osiris and his sisters Isis and Nephtys. Vase canope - Calvet 4632.jpg, Canopic jar Ex-voto de Yaï - Calvet - 4612.jpg, Ex-voto of YaÏ. Tête d'Ammon - Calvet 4605.jpg, Medallion of eAmmon. Table d'offrande d'Harsiési - Calvet 4620.jpg, Offering table of Harsiési.

Curators

* 1814–1823 : Pierre-Bertrand DejeanConservateurs du musée Calvet
on fondation-calvet.org. * 1823–1838 : * 1838–1840 : Marie-Charles-Jean-Louis-Casimir De Blégier * 1841–1849 : Dominique-Victor-Hyacinthe Chaubaud * 1849–1851 : Esprit Requien * 1852–1890 : Augustin Deloye * 1890–1906 : Léon-Honoré Labande * 1906–1949 : Joseph Girard (1881-1962), Joseph Girard * 1949–1984 : Georges De Loye * 1984–1991 : Marie-Pierre Foissy-Aufrère * 1992–1995 : Odile Cavalier (Lapidary Museum only) * 1995–2004 : Pierre Provoyeur * 2005–2015 : Sylvain Boyer

References

Bibliography

* Alexis Mouzin, « La collection du maître ferronnier Noël Biret au Musée Calvet », in ''Mémoires de l, 1919,
(''online'')
* Joseph Girard (1881-1962), Joseph Girard, « Les Villeneuve-Martignan et leur hôtel à Avignon », in ''Mémoires de l'Académie de Vaucluse'', 1935,
(''online'')
* Sylvain Gagnière and Pierre de Brun, ''Les Lampes antiques du musée Calvet d'Avignon'', preface by abbé Joseph Sautel, 1937. * Sylvain Gagnière and Jacky Granier, ''Épées, poignards et couteaux en bronze du musée Calvet d'Avignon'', Ogam : tradition celtique, 79, 1962, . * Joseph Girard (1881-1962), Joseph Girard, « Histoire du musée Calvet », dans ''Provence historique'', tome 4, fascicule 18, 1954, (pd
online
. * Joseph Girard (1881-1962), Joseph Girard, ''Évocation du vieil Avignon'', Paris, Les Éditions de Minuit, 1958 réédition 2007, . * Pascale Picard (ed.), ''Mirabilis, Collections d'Avignon'' (cat. exp. 2018), Milan, Silvana Editoriale, Avignon, AvignonMusées, 2018, 190 p.

External links

Official site of the Musée Calvet

Official site of the Fondation Calvet

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