Museum Angladon

The museum Angladon is quite recent in Avignon, it opened in 1996, thanks to the Angladon-Dubrujeaud foundation, which inherited the artwork collection of Jacques Doucet, a rich Parisian collector who lived in the first part of the 20th century.

The collection presented in the museum Angladon is exceptional, it holds works by some of the most famous modern painters :

Degas, Modigliani, Cézanne, Van Gogh, Picasso and many others. It is also exceptional for its diversity and coherence together, with works of art from the Middle Ages to the 20th century in painting and decorative arts.

The way chosen for the display is to keep the spirit of the original art collection, gathered by particularly enlightened art lovers, in the place itself where Jean and Paulette lived Angladon-Dubrujeaud, the last holders of the collection.

On the ground floor, two rooms with simple design display modern paintings. Masters of the end of the 19th century like Van Gogh, Cézanne or Vuillard are presented in the first room, as Modigliani, Foujita or Picasso's paintings are together in the second room with 1920's artwork.

On the first floor a room is devoted to Middle Ages and Renaissance, a red living room to the 17th century, a blue living-room to the 18th century, another one to the 19th century which presents a beautiful "Tempest" painted by Joseph Vernet.

This tour through time and art history is exceptional by the quality of the artworks displayed. We feel the sensitivity, the meaning and the soul of a collection in which the owners put the best of themselves.

Jacques Doucet Collection

The man at the start of the collection exposed in the Angladon museum is Jacques Doucet (1853 – 1929), a famous "couturier parisien" who ran a prosperous dressmaking company at the beginning of the 20th century.

After he had gathered a brilliant collection of 18th century classical artwork, he starts to collect modern art from 1912. He is the friend and the sponsor of the "avant-garde" artists, and his exceptional collection includes the greatest ones : Manet, Matisse, Picasso, Braque, Modigliani, or the Douanier Rousseau

After his death, a part of the collection is dispersed among the most prestigious museums of the world. Jacques Doucet's great-nephew, Jean Angladon-Dubrujeaud (1906-1979), a painter and sculptor living in Avignon, inherited the collection in 1968.

Along with his spouse Paulette Martin, also a painter, the couple installed the collection in their own home, the Hôtel de Massillan, a mansion built in 1694 by the architect Jean Péru in the centre of Avignon.

Jean and Paulette Angladon-Dubrujeaud decide to bequeath their art collection to the Foundation Angladon-Dubrujeaud, charged with transforming their home into a museum and giving the public the opportunity to enjoy this exceptional art collection.

The museum opened in November 1996 in the Hôtel de Massillan.

As a tribute to the museum founders, Jean and Paulette Angladon-Dubrujeaud's studio has been recreated.

 

Masterpieces of the Angladon Museum

The Angladon Museum holds some exceptional masterpieces.

The unique Vincent Van Gogh painting exhibited in Provence is here in the Angladon Museum. This is an artwork from his Arles stay, dated 1888 and titled "railway wagons".

The painter of the Provence par excellence, Cézanne is also present in the Angladon Museum with this "Nature morte au pot de grès" painted in 1873.

The collector Jacques Doucet was also a fervent amateur of oriental Art. A whole room of the Angladon museum is devoted to the far East Art, where several pieces of porcelain are displayed, like this rounded vase dated from the Emperor Kangxi's reign (1662-1722).

The delicate Marquise de Pompadour's face - king Louis XV's mistress - is painted with an extreme sensitivity on this watercolour and gouache on ivory of the 18th century. This period was the first artistic passion for Jacques Doucet.

Coming to Angladon

GPS location : N 43.9460603, E 4.8069271

Contact

Museum Angladon in Avignon

website www.angladon.com

5, rue Laboureur - 84000 Avignon

tel : +33 (0)490 82 29 23