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Consul / diplomat · Donor

Alfred Péretié

b. 1832 · France

French consular officer. Gave to Louvre; child of Napoléon Antoine Aimé Péretié.

Life and work

  1. from 1882
    Handed the Louvre his late father's last gift, a bronze right leg of a male statue (MNC 1190 = Br 69); the Louvre archives say it came from Saida, not Cyprus

    ParisCassimatis 2001, p. 240

Connections

2 people

Colleagues & contacts

Objects

  • Bronze right leg to the hip of a male statue, fine workmanship

    From Saida (per Louvre archives; De Ridder had attributed it to Mattei and Cyprus)Musée du Louvre MNC 1190 = Br 69from 1882Cassimatis 2001, p. 240

Sources

  1. 1.Hélène Cassimatis (2001). “Melchior de Vogüé et alii and Cyprus: Monsieur Péretié”. Cyprus in the 19th Century AD: Fact, Fancy and Fiction, 216-221. Oxford, Oxbow Books.
  2. 2.S. Béraud (1969). “Liste des consuls français à Chypre de 1661 jusqu'en 1959”. Kypriakai Spoudai, 149-154.