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Antoinette J. Decaudin

fl. 1870–1993 · France

Louvre documentaliste who compiled the 1987 census of Cypriot antiquities in French provincial museums and catalogued the Lycklama collection at Cannes in 1993.

Biography

Antoinette J. Decaudin compiled the 1987 inventory of Cypriot antiquities in French public collections. Annie Caubet had begun gathering documentation on Cypriot loans to provincial museums in the Louvre's Oriental Antiquities department, and the census, in Anne-Elizabeth Dunn-Vaturi's words, "fut finalement confié quelques années plus tard à A. Decaudin"4. The result was Les antiquités chypriotes dans les collections publiques françaises (1987)2. It left out the Louvre, the Cabinet des médailles, the Paris-region collections and some provincial museums already assigned to others, Lille among them5. For Lyon she presented about forty ceramics, thirteen limestone sculptures and fourteen terracotta figurines, and for Laon her volume gave the first catalogue of a collection of more than a hundred objects5,6. Caubet cites it for the objects brought to the museum at Châteaudun by Alban Guillaume-Rey3.

The Cannes pieces were not in the census, having already been catalogued by her1. On 2 July 1990 François Nedellec, conservateur of the Musée de la Castre, authorised "Madame Antoinette J. Decaudin, documentaliste au Musée du Louvre" to publish her results. Chypre dans l'antiquité (1993) catalogues the Cypriot pieces of the collection of Tinco Martinus Lycklama a Nijeholt that were accessible in 1989, with Louvre loans1.

Marangou records that she told the biographers of Luigi Palma di Cesnola of a 73-page album of Golgoi photographs that Cesnola sent to Count Federico Sclopis di Salerano at the Turin Academy of Sciences on 12 September 18707.

Life and work

  1. 12 September 1870
    Marangou writes that she informed the biographers of a 73-page album of photographs of objects from the Golgoi temple, sent by Cesnola to Count Federico Sclopis di Salerano at the Academy of Sciences, Turin, on 12 September 1870.

    TurinMarangou 2000, p. 96

  2. 1987
    Published Les antiquités chypriotes dans les collections publiques françaises (Leventis Foundation / Centre d'archéologie chypriote, Lyon, and Nicosia), a national census of Cypriot antiquities in French public provincial collections, excluding the Louvre, the Bibliothèque nationale (Cabinet des médailles) and the Paris-region museums (Saint-Germain-en-Laye, Sèvres).

    NicosiaYon 2012Dunn-Vaturi 2007Decaudin 1993

  3. 1987
    Her catalogue listed about seventy objects of the Musée des Beaux-Arts de Lyon (40 ceramics, 13 limestone sculptures, 14 terracotta figurines; limestone nos. 44-56) and the Laon collection; Yon (2012) and the 2010 Laon study re-examined these.

    LyonYon 2012Jorrand et al. 2010

  4. 1987
    The 1987 volume lists the works brought back to the museum of Châteaudun by Alban Guillaume ('Guillaume-Rey') (Caubet n. 7: Decaudin 1987, VII, XV and 38), and records a Base Ring figurine in the Marseille collection (Musée Borély) at p. 155, pl. LX no. 109 and a bird figurine at p. 166, no. 148.

    MarseilleCaubet 1993Merrillees 1992, p. 6 n.Dissinger 2017

  5. 1989
    Catalogued the Cypriot pieces of the Lycklama collection that were accessible in 1989 (Musée de la Castre, Cannes), a collection given to Cannes by Tinco Martinus Lycklama a Nijeholt; the Louvre lent further Cypriot pieces to Cannes.

    CannesDecaudin 1993

  6. 2 July 1990
    François Nedellec, Conservateur of the Musée de la Castre, Cannes, authorised her in writing to publish the results of her study of the Lycklama Cypriot objects within the Corpus of Cypriot antiquities in French public collections.

    CannesDecaudin 1993

  7. 1993
    Published Musée de Cannes. Chypre dans l'antiquité. Catalogue (CCEC 19), with an introduction on Cesnola and a notice on Lycklama; thanked the Centre d'études chypriotes, O. Masson, V. Karageorghis, H. Cassimatis (proof-reading), S. Besques, A. Caubet, A. Hermary, F. Nedellec, M. Wallet and others; photographs mostly her own.

    CannesDecaudin 1993

Connections

6 people
François NedellecTinco Martinus Lycklama a…Vassos KarageorghisOlivier MassonAnnie CaubetMarie WalletAntoinette J. Decaudin
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Sources

  1. 1.Antoinette J. Decaudin (1993). “Musée de Cannes. Chypre dans l'antiquité. Catalogue”. Cahiers du Centre d'Études Chypriotes 19. Online
  2. 2.A. J. Decaudin (1987). Les antiquités chypriotes dans les collections publiques françaises. Nicosia and Lyon, Fondation Leventis and Centre d'archéologie chypriote, Maison de l'Orient méditerranéen.
  3. 3.Annie Caubet (1993). “Les antiquités chypriotes au Musée du Louvre”. Kinyras : l'archéologie française à Chypre. Lyon. Online
  4. 4.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
  5. 5.Marguerite Yon (2012). “Les antiquités chypriotes du musée des Beaux-Arts de Lyon”. Cahiers du Centre d'Études Chypriotes 42, 181-. Online
  6. 6.Caroline Jorrand, Robert Merrillees, Sabine Fourrier, Marguerite Yon et al. (2010). “La collection chypriote du musée municipal de Laon (Aisne)”. Cahiers du Centre d'Études Chypriotes 40. Online
  7. 7.A. G. Marangou (ed.) (2000). The Consul Luigi Palma di Cesnola 1832-1904: Life and Deeds.
  8. 8.Robert S. Merrillees (1992). “A Late Cypriote figurine with child from the Boysset Collection (now Sèvres Museum)”. Cahiers du Centre d'Études Chypriotes 18, 3-7. Online
  9. 9.Alicia Marie Dissinger (2017). “Cypro-Archaic Bird Iconography: Types, Uses, and Meanings”. University of Virginia.