The Calvet Museum (''musée Calvet'') 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 Lapidary Museum 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. Its collections also include goldwork, faience, 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, bishop of Cambrai. In 1719, it was sold to François-René de Villeneuve, marquis d'Arzeliers and lord of Martignan, in the Principality of Orange.Joseph Girard, op cit, . Portrait d'Esprit Calvet

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.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'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 ''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 coll ...

on 1 October 1963.

Museum

A major collector and a physiocrat 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 palais des Tuileries 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 : ''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 : ''Still Life with Vegetables and Apricots''. * Pierre Mignard : ''Portrait of Henri de Forbin Maynier, baron d'Oppède'' ; ''Alexander Meets the Queen of the Amazons''. * Pierre II Mignard : ''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, Nicolas Mignard, ''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, Pierre II Mignard, ''Allegory of Spring''.

= 18th century

= * Nicolas de Largillierre : ''Portrait of Pierre Parrocel''. * Jean Raoux : ''Young Woman Reading a Letter'' ; ''Silence, or Woman at a Window Drawing a Curtain''. * Pierre Parrocel : ''Resurrection''. * Étienne Parrocel : ''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 : ''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 : ''Jesus Presented in the Temple'' * Jean-Baptiste Marie Pierre : ''Beheading of St John the Baptist'' * Louis-Michel van Loo : ''Portrait of Joseph Vernet''. * Hubert Robert : ''Spring'' ; ''The Fontaine de Vaucluse'' ; ''Landscape with Ruins and a Fountain'' ; ''Herd in front of the Colisseum and the Arch of Constantine in Rome''. * Jean-Baptiste Regnault : ''The Centaur Chiron Educating Achilles''. * Pierre Peyron : ''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 : ''Portrait of Giuseppina Grassini''. Jean Raoux-Calvet.jpg, Jean Raoux, ''Young Woman Reading a Letter''. Pierre Parrocel-Résurrection du Christ.jpg, Pierre Parrocel, ''Resurrection''. Jean Valade-Portrait du marquis de Caumont.jpg, Jean Valade, ''Portrait of the marquis de Caumont''. Joseph Vernet-La bergère des Alpes.jpg, Joseph Vernet, ''A Shepherdess in the Alps''. Vigée-Lebrun-Grassini.jpg, Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun, ''Portrait of Giuseppina Grassini''.

= 19th century

= * Horace Vernet : ''Joseph Vernet, Attached to a Mast, Studying the Effects of a Storm'', oil on canvas, 1822 ; ''Mazeppa'', 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 : ''Jacques de Molay Received into the Templars''. * Claude Marie Paul Dubufe : ''Apollo and Cyparissa''. * Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot : ''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 Francis I or Francis the First may refer to: * Francesco I Gonzaga (1366–1407) * Francis I, Duke of Brittany (1414–1450), reigned 1442–1450 * Francis I of France (1494–1547), King of France, reigned 1515–1547 * Francis I, Duke of Saxe ...

at the Fontaine de Vaucluse''. * Eugène Devéria : ''Portrait of Calvet''. *

Auguste-Barthélemy Glaize Auguste-Barthélemy Glaize (1807–1893) was a French Romanticism, Romantic painter of history paintings and genre works, genre paintings. Career He studied under the painters Achille Devéria and Eugène Devéria and taught Paul-Maurice Dutho ...

: ''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 given title of Baron Gros in 1824. Gros studied under Jacques-Louis David in Paris and began an independent artistic career during the French R ...

: ''The Battle of Nazareth''. *

Isidore Dagnan Isidore Dagnan, a French landscape painter, was born at Marseille in 1794, and died in Paris in 1873. His pictures consist chiefly of views in Southern France, Italy, and Switzerland. His works include the following: * Fontainebleau. Palace. '' ...

: ''View of Avignon and the pont Saint-Bénézet''. * : ''Caravaggio in His Studio''. * Pierre Révoil : ''Charles-Quint at the abbaye de Saint-Just''. * Paul Huet : ''General view of Avignon and Villeneuve-lès-Avignon from inside the fort Saint-André'' ; ''View of Avignon from the North Side''. * Théodore Chassériau : ''Sleeping Bather''. * Alfred Sisley : ''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 eveni ...

: ''The Pointe de la Baumette''. * Paul Guigou : ''Selfportrait, or Man with a Pipe''. * Pierre Grivolas : ''Flagellants in the 14th Century'' ; ''The Market in place Pie''. * Victor Leydet : ''Before Mass'' ; ''Portrait of a Standing Young Man''. * : ''The Prodigal Son Guarding Pigs''. * Clément Brun : ''Street in Villeneuve-lès-Avignon''. * : ''Burial of Saint Sebastian'', 1827. Vernet, Horace - Mazeppa and the Wolves - 1826.jpg, Horace Vernet, ''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, Eugène Devéria, ''Portrait of Calvet''. Théodore Chassériau-baigneuse endormie.jpg, Théodore Chassériau, ''Sleeping Bather''. Paul Huet-Vue d'Avignon.jpg, Paul Huet, ''General view of Avignon and Villeneuve-lès-Avignon from inside the fort Saint-André''. Musée Calvet Sisley.jpg, Alfred Sisley, ''The Church at Moret''.

= 20th century

= * Émile Bernard : ''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 ...

: ''Winter Day''. * Chaïm Soutine : ''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. He produced a varied and extensive body of work. His style was exclusively figurative. The artist enjoyed worldwide popularity early in his caree ...

: ''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 : ''Motherhood in White''. * George Desvallières : ''Portrait of Madame Emile Desvallières''. * Albert Gleizes : ''Motherhood''; ''Riverbank''. * Alfred Lesbros : ''Street in Villeneuve-lès-Avignon'' ; ''Footing''. * : ''Portrait of Jules Belleudy in his Office''. *

René Seyssaud René Seyssaud (16 June 1867 – 26 September 1952) was a Provençal painter and is known as a precursor of Fauvism. Biography Seyssaud was born on 16 June 1867 in Marseille, but spent his childhood at his ancestral home of Pe ...

: ''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 : ''On Zinc''. * Joe Downing : ''Painting''. Chaïm Soutine - Vue d'un village - Calvet.jpg, Chaïm Soutine, ''View of a Village, Céret in Roussillon''. Maurice Denis-Maternité-Calvet.jpg, Maurice Denis, ''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 : ''The Virgin Mary Appearing to the Bishops at the Council of Ephesus'', sketch for a large painting for santa Maria del Carmine church in Milan. *

Paolo Biancucci Paolo Biancucci (1583–1653) was born at Lucca and was a pupil of Guido Reni, and influenced by Sassoferrato. He painted a ''Purgatory'', for the church of the Suffragio San Francesco Saverio also known as the ''Church of the Suffragio'' is a ...

: ''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 Italian painter working in Cremona during the Late Renaissance. Campi is best known as one of the first northern Italian artists to work in the Flemish style of realist genre painting. ...

: ''Peasants' Meal'' * Angelo Caroselli : ''Young Man with a Skull, Vanitas''. * : ''The Painter's Easel'' * Luca Giordano : ''The Death of Lucretia''. * Rutilio Manetti ; ''Saint Jerome Supported by Angels''. *

Giovanni Maria Morandi Giovanni Maria Morandi (30 April 1622 – 18 February 1717) was an Italian painter, mainly active in Rome and his natal city of Florence, but also Venice. He is said to have briefly trained in Florence with Sigismondo Coccapani and Giovann ...

: ''Portrait of cardinal Marcello Durazzo''. *

Pietro Negri Pietro Negri (1628, Venice - 31 May 1679, Venice) was an Italian painter in the Baroque art, Baroque style who belonged to the so-called "tenebrosi" (dark or gloomy ones). Biography He was likely born in Venice. Early sources assumed that he ...

: ''Nero and Agrippina''. *

Salvator Rosa Salvator Rosa (1615 –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 early 19th ...

: ''Landscape with Two Figures''. * Giorgio Vasari : ''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 ( Vicenza, 1603 &nd ...

: ''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 dwarfs. Biography He was son of Giacomo and Giulia Faioni, and was born in Brescia on June 17, 1659. It is not known if Bocchi ev ...

: ''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 : ''The Vow of Marcus Curtius '', ''Belisarius Begging for Alms''. * Francesco Zuccarelli : ''Landscape with Peasants''. Della Vecchia-La femme adultère.jpg,

, ''Christ and the Woman Taken in Adultery''. Luca-Giordano-Musée Calvet mort-de-Lucrèce.jpg, Luca Giordano, ''The Death of Lucretia''. Giovanni Maria Morandi portrait du cardinal Marcello Durazzo, 1686 Musée Calvet.jpg,

, ''Portrait of cardinal Marcello Durazzo''. Pannini-bélissaire.jpg, Giovanni Paolo Panini, ''Belisarius Begging for Alms''.

Spanish

* Luis de Morales : ''Ecce Homo''.

Northern Europe

Johann Koerbecke - Résurrection du Christ

* Johann Koerbecke : ''Resurrection'', 1457, a rare panel from a broken-up retable originally in Marienfeld Abbey. * Germany (15th century) : ''Crucified Martyrs'' ; ''Martyrs Whipped and Wearing Crowns of Thorns''. * Jan Frans van Bloemen : ''Landscape with Bathers'' ; ''Landscape with Goatherds''. * Pieter Bout : ''Busy River Landscape''. * Salomon de Bray : ''Saint Peter Delivered from Prison''. * Joos van Craesbeeck : ''The Smoker and Death''. * After

Albrecht Dürer Albrecht Dürer (; ; hu, Ajtósi Adalbert; 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 (without an umlaut) or Due ...

: ''Christ Bearing the Cross''. *

Cornelis Dusart Cornelis Dusart (April 24, 1660 – October 1, 1704) was a Dutch Genre works, genre painter, draftsman, and printmaker. He was born in Haarlem. Dusart was a pupil of Adriaen van Ostade from about 1675 to 1679, and was accepted into the Haarlem ...

: ''Seated Pipe-Smoker''. * After Jan Brueghel the Elder : ''Procession at a Peasant Wedding''. * Pieter Brueghel the Younger (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 : ''Portrait of a Churchman''. *

Pieter Hardimé Pieter HardiméName variations: Petrus Ardimé, Pieter Hardimee, Peter Hardimé, Peeter Hardimé (25 November 1677, in Antwerp – September 1748, in The Hague) was a Flemish painter known for his paintings of flowers. He trained in Antwerp and ...

: ''Flower Bouquet in a Vase on a Stone Ledge''. * Gerard Hoet : ''Armida Preparing to Pursue Rinaldo''. * Abraham Hondius : ''Dogs Attacking a Heron''. * Gérard de Lairesse : ''Jaël and Sisera''. * Anthonie de Lorme (architecture) and Anthonie Palamedesz. (figures) : ''Protestant Church Interior with Figures''. * Jan Miel : ''Shepherds and Their Flock in a Mountainous Landscape'' * Jan Miense Molenaer : ''The Foot Operation''. * Michiel van Musscher : ''A Lute Lesson Interrupted''. *

Eglon van der Neer Eglon van der Neer (1635/363 May 1703) was a Dutch painter of historical scenes, portraits and elegant, fashionable people, and later of landscapes. Life Van der Neer was born in Amsterdam and was probably first taught by his father, Aer ...

: ''Portrait of a Man in Louis XIV Costume''. *

Aernout van der Neer Aert van der Neer, or Aernout or Artus (c. 16039 November 1677), was a landscape painter of the Dutch Golden Age, specializing in small night scenes lit only by moonlight and fires, and snowy winter landscapes, both often looking down a canal ...

: ''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 : ''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 : ''Child and Dog at a Window, Trompe-l’œil''. *

Matthijs Wulfraet Mathijs Wulfraet (1 January 1648 – 1727) was a Dutch Golden Age painter. Biography Wulfraet was born in Arnhem. According to Houbraken he was born on New Year's Eve between midnight and one in the morning. Cornelis Dusart - Fumeur - Musée Calvet.jpg,

, ''Seated Pipe-Smoker''. Jan Brueghel (I) - Cortège d'une noce paysanne - Calvet.jpg, After Jan Brueghel the Elder, ''Procession at a Peasant Wedding''. Musée Calvet Jan-Weenix.jpg, Jan Weenix, ''Child and Dog at a Window, Trompe-l’œil''. Michiel van Musscher - Leçon de luth-Musée Calvet.jpg, Michiel van Musscher, ''A Lute Lesson Interrupted''. Jan Frans van Bloemen - paysage aux chevriers - Calvet.jpg, Jan Frans van Bloemen, ''Landscape with Goatherds''.

Sculpture

French

= 15th to 18th century

Enfant accompagné d'un chien-Musée Calvet

* ''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 the ...

: ''Orestes'', carrara marble bust * Victor-Étienne Simyan : ''Etruscan Art'', marble with traces of bronzing. * Camille Claudel : ''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 : ''Cassandra Taking Refuge at the Foot of the Altar'', marble. * Jean-Joseph Espercieux : ''Greek Woman Preparing to get into a Bath'', marble. *

Jules Cavelier Pierre-Jules Cavelier (30 August 1814, Paris – 28 January 1894, Paris) was a French academic sculptor. Biography The son of a silversmith and furniture maker, Cavelier was born in Paris. He was a student of the sculptors David d'Angers a ...

: ''The Novice'', marble. * Jean-Louis Brian : ''Mercury'', plaster ; ''Faun'', marble Veray-Musée Calvet.jpg, Louis Veray, ''Sleeping Harvester''. James Pradier-Cassandre.jpg, James Pradier, ''Cassandra Taking Refuge at the Foot of the Altar''. Jean-Joseph Espercieux-Femme grecque.jpg, Jean-Joseph Espercieux, ''Greek Woman Preparing to get into a Bath''. Jean-louis Brian-Faune.jpg, Jean-Louis Brian, ''Faun'' (1841). Camille Claudel-Paul Claudel-Calvet.jpg, Camille Claudel, ''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, ''Bust of a Child'', marble with traces of paint and gilding. * Pietro Torrigiano : ''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, Jan van Goyen and Raphael Mengs, whilst Spanish ones include Vincenzo Carducci and Juan de Valdés Leal. French artists represented include Le Lorrain, Eustache Le Sueur, Antoine Watteau,

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 Bouc ...

, Jean-Marc Nattier,

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 uniqu ...

, Honoré Daumier, Jean-François Millet, Eugène Boudin, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec,

Berthe Morisot Berthe Marie Pauline Morisot (; January 14, 1841 – March 2, 1895) was a French painter 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 highly es ...

Paul Cézanne Paul Cézanne ( , , ; ; 19 January 1839 – 22 October 1906) was a French artist and Post-Impressionism, Post-Impressionist painter whose work laid the foundations of the transition from the 19th-century conception of artistic endeavour to a ...

Auguste Renoir Pierre-Auguste Renoir (; 25 February 1841 – 3 December 1919) was a French artist who was a leading painter in the development of the Impressionist style. As a celebrator of beauty and especially feminine sensuality, it has been said that " ...

, Alfred Sisley, Henri-Edmond Cross, Édouard Vuillard, Georges Rouault,

Albert Marquet Albert Marquet (27 March 1875 – 14 June 1947) was a French painter, associated with the Fauvist movement. He initially became one of the Fauve painters and a lifelong friend of Henri Matisse. Marquet subsequently painted in a more naturali ...

Marc Chagall Marc Chagall; russian: link=no, Марк Заха́рович Шага́л ; be, Марк Захаравіч Шагал . (born Moishe Shagal; 28 March 1985) was a Russian-French artist. An early modernism, modernist, he was associated with se ...

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 born ...

, 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 m ...

. Italian artists include Domenico Beccafumi, Lorenzo Lotto, Baccio Bandinelli,

Daniele da Volterra Daniele Ricciarelli (; 15094 April 1566), better known as Daniele da Volterra (, ), was a Mannerist Italian painter and sculptor. He is best remembered for his association with the late Michelangelo. Several of Daniele's most important works ...

Il Romanino Girolamo Romani, known as Romanino (c. 1485 - c. 1566), was an 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 Brescia. Hi ...

Paolo Veronese Paolo Caliari (152819 April 1588), known as Paolo Veronese ( , also , ), was an Italian Renaissance painter based in Venice, known for extremely large history paintings of religion and mythology, such as ''The Wedding at Cana'' (1563) and ''The ...

, Tintoretto,

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

, Taddeo Zuccaro, Il Garofalo,

Agostino Carracci Agostino Carracci (or 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 founders of ...

, Federico Barocci, Mattia Preti, Luca Giordano, Domenico Fetti, Guercino, Alessandro Algardi,

Luigi Garzi Luigi Garzi (1638 – 1721) was an Italian painter of the Baroque period, whose work displayed heavy influences of the Bolognese painter, Guido Reni. Biography Born in Pistoia. He started learning from a poorly known landscape painter, Salomon B ...

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, Pier Francesco Mola, Daniele Crespi, Giovanni Niccolò Servandoni and

Amedeo Modigliani Amedeo Clemente Modigliani (, ; 12 July 1884 – 24 January 1920) was an Italian painter and sculptor who worked mainly in France. He is known for portraits and nudes in a modern style characterized by a surreal elongation of faces, necks, and ...

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. Musée Calvet Coffre à peintures

* Cabinet of curiosities with twelve medallions of the life of the prophet Daniel from the Book of Daniel, painted by Frans II Francken, dated 1620 on its reverse, from the Puech collection. Musée Calvet Coffre à peintures Schéma

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

Sarcophage - Nut (goddess) - Musée Calvet

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 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

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, 26th Dynasty,

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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

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and offered to Calvet by the

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(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 Léon-Honoré Labande (1867-1939) was a French museum curator, historian and archivist. He was the curator of the Calvet Museum in Avignon from 1890 to 1906. He was the archivist of the Prince's Palace of Monaco from 1906 to 1939. He was the autho ...

* 1906-1949 : 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, « 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, « Histoire du musée Calvet », dans ''Provence historique'', tome 4, fascicule 18, 1954, (pd
online
. * 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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