Museum
Musée Guimet
Paris, France
Museum in Paris. 2 people in the register connected with it.
The Cypriot collection
Its Cypriot vases were assigned to the Louvre with the museum's non-Asian collections, mostly from 1948. (2007)
History
- 1907Guimet bought vases said to be 'de Chypre' at Avignon (per François Villard); eight Cypriot vases were sent to German and Czech museums in October 1907.
- 1945Villard's unpublished École du Louvre thesis catalogued the Guimet vases deposited at the Louvre (not specifically Cypriot).
- 1948Most of the Guimet's non-Asian collections, including Cypriot vases, were assigned to the Louvre from this year on.
People
2 peopleStaff and members · 2
- Guimetother (from 1907) · the museum that sent and held the Cypriot vasesDunn-Vaturi 2007, pp. 75-761907
- François Villardspecialist (1945–1945) · catalogued its collectionDunn-Vaturi 20071945
Sources
- 1.Anne-Elizabeth Dunn-Vaturi (2007). “Le récolement des antiquités chypriotes dans les collections françaises. Nouvelles perspectives vingt ans après le catalogue d'Antoinette Decaudin”. Cahiers du Centre d'Études Chypriotes 37, 71-85. Online