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 a museum and a library, with state support. The original legacies of paintings, archaeological items, coins and medals, and medieval sculpture have been added to by many other legacies, and a significant deposit of works of art from the Louvre. The archaeological collections and medieval sculpture are now housed separately in the "Musée Lapidaire" - once the chapel of the Jesuit College. The main museum is in an 18th century city mansion, to which modern buildings have been added; the Library bequeathed by Calvet, and the important collection of over 12,000 coins and medals, have moved to a different location in the city.

Local painters, including Pierre Parrocel and the Mignard family, are especially well-represented, as is Hubert Robert. Other painters include Josse Lieferinxe, Giorgio Vasari, Luca Giordano, Salvator Rosa, Frans Francken the Younger, Jan Brueghel the Younger, Sebastiano Ricci, Giovanni Paolo Pannini, Joseph Vernet, Jacques-Louis David, Elisabeth Vigée-Lebrun, Théodore Géricault, Honoré Daumier, Camille Corot, Edouard Manet, Alfred Sisley, Maurice de Vlaminck and Chaïm Soutine.

References

• La Tribune de l'Art : Vers la renaissance du Musée Calvet ?

External links

• Official site
• Musée Calvet

Coordinates: 43°56′49″N 4°48′12″E / 43.94694°N 4.80333°E / 43.94694; 4.80333