The Louis Vouland Museum (''musée Louis Vouland'') is a 17th and 18th century decorative arts museum in

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, housed in a

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from

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and Moustiers, metalwork, tapestries and paintings.

History

On 26 November 1872 at

Hyères Hyères (), Provençal dialect, Provençal Occitan language, Occitan: ''Ieras'' in classical norm, or ''Iero'' in Mistralian norm) is a Communes of France, commune in the Var (département), Var Departments of France, department in the Provence-Al ...

, Mathilde de Thysebaërt married Marie Xavier Arthur de Villeneuve-Esclapon, who in 1877 became secretary-general for the department of

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. In 1879 Mathilde bought an estate next to the rue Saint-Dominique (now the rue Victor-Hugo) in Avignon, where she built a hôtel particulier. The couple lived there for a time before selling it to Marie Camp in 1897. After Camp's death it was bought on 14 November 1927 by the industrialist and collector Louis Vouland to house his collections. On his death on 28 November 1973, he left the building and his collections to the

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to become a museum.

Collections

Furniture

Ceramics

Non-French faience

French faience

= Moustiers

= Marseille

= Other

= The museum also exhibits faience from outside

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, such as that made in Niderviller,

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and

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Metalwork

Paintings

Prints

Sculpture

Selected exhibitions

* 25 June - 30 October 2011 : « La collection Dumon », Fondation Regards de Provence *23 June - 28 October 2012 : « SPH (Société protectrice de l'humour), 10 ans d'expositions de dessins d'humour en Avignon de 1967 à 1976 » *summer 2013 : « Lumières », Régis Mathieu and his 'Galerie Lumières' *28 June - 26 October : « Rêves d'un collectionneur » * 18 June – 6 September 2015 : «

Jean-Henri Fabre Jean-Henri Casimir Fabre (; 21 December 1823 – 11 October 1915) was a French naturalist, entomologist, and author known for the lively style of his popular books on the lives of insects. Biography Fabre was born on 21 December 1823 in Saint- ...

(1823-1915), l’art dans la nature » * 2 June – 2 October 2016 : «

Victor Vasarely Victor Vasarely (; born Győző Vásárhelyi, ; 9 April 1906 – 15 March 1997) was a Hungarian-French artist, who is widely accepted as a "grandfather" and leader of the Op art movement. His work titled ''Zebra'', created in 1937, i ...

, Multiplicité » * 2 June – 1 October 2017 : « Hortus 2.0, acte 1 », EDIS (commissaire d’exposition) * 1 December 2017 – 13 May 2018 : « Promenade dans la lumière de Vaucluse » * 3 July – 4 November 2018 : « Le temps suspendu » * 21 February – 9 June 2019 : « Yuan Chin-Taa, l’art est un jeu »

References

Bibliography

*''Musée Louis Vouland'', Avignon, fondation Louis Vouland, 2014, 120 p. () {{DEFAULTSORT:Louis Vouland, Musée Museums in Avignon 1982 establishments in France Decorative arts museums in France Ceramics museums in France Furniture museums Museums established in 1982