Musée de la Castre (Musées de Cannes)

Decaudin's 1993 catalogue lists 66 Cypriot entries from the Lycklama collection, some Louvre deposits, with an earlier Lycklama inventory numbered MCL AO; only the pieces accessible in 1989 are catalogued. (1993)

Decaudin 1993

1. May 1872
   Baron T. M. Lycklama a Nijeholt opens a private museum at Beetsterwaag (Frisia) for his collections, which closes in September 1872; he moves to Cannes with the collections.

   Tinco Martinus Lycklama a NijeholtDecaudin 1993

2. 1877
   Lycklama gives his collections to the city of Cannes; they are installed on the ground floor of the town hall, east wing. Decaudin finds no purchase records naming vendors or Cypriot provenances for the Cypriot pieces; his only Cyprus call (Larnaca, 1868) was a stopover without landing.

   Tinco Martinus Lycklama a NijeholtErnest MassenotDecaudin 1993

3. 1900
   Lycklama dies; the collections are preserved until the death of his wife in 1914, after which Decaudin finds no serious information until 1923.

   Tinco Martinus Lycklama a NijeholtDecaudin 1993

4. 1923
   Theodore Reinach, asking to see the collection, finds it stored in disorder in the old castle of the Suquet.

   Théodore ReinachDecaudin 1993

5. 1928–1931
   Joseph Billiet is conservateur; he reorders the collection and carries out the recolement that fixes the MCL AO inventory numbers; he publishes La collection Lycklama au Musee de Cannes (1931) and thanks Contenau for help with reclassification.

   Joseph BillietContenauDecaudin 1993Billiet 1931, p. 325

6. 1993
   Antoinette J. Decaudin publishes Musee de Cannes, Chypre dans l'Antiquite, Catalogue (CCEC 19), with the conservateurs Francois Nedellec and Marie Wallet named in the acknowledgements. Includes Louvre pieces deposited at Cannes such as a bearded head (no. 36) and a Hellenistic kourotrophos (Louvre AM 274).

   Antoinette J. DecaudinFrançois NedellecMarie WalletDecaudin 1993

• Late 6th-century BC limestone female head (cat. 35)

  MCL AO 232via Tinco Martinus Lycklama a Nijeholt1877Decaudin 1993, cat. 35

• Bearded limestone head (cat. 36), Louvre deposit; Decaudin: its only parallel is in the British Museum

  via Musée du LouvreDecaudin 1993

• Hellenistic Larnaca-fabric kourotrophos terracotta, Louvre deposit

  AM 274via Musée du LouvreDecaudin 1993