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Hélène Cassimatis

fl. 1981–2004

French scholar of Cypriot sculpture and terracottas whose 2001 study separated the Beirut dealer Aimé Péretié from his son Alfred, consul at Larnaca.

Biography

Hélène Cassimatis showed in 2001 that the Péretié who supplied Cypriot and Levantine antiquities to French collectors was Aimé, the antiquarian who died in 1882, and not his son Alfred, the consul at Larnaca. She presented the paper at the British Museum's twenty-second Classical Colloquium in December 1998, working from the Vogüé family archives, the Louvre archives and the Foreign Affairs archives, and published it in 20011. By her account aime-peretie sold the bilingual tablet from Idalion to the duc de Luynes in 1850, supplied Louis de Clercq from 1859 and Melchior de Vogüé, and gave the Louvre three limestone heads in 1854 that she could not locate1. She also records that Cesnola tried, through Péretié's circle, to sell his collection to the Louvre, and that Péretié declined to go to Cyprus to value it1.

Earlier she had published a Cypriot head in a private collection in the Report of the Department of Antiquities, Cyprus in 1981, a study of crowns on male limestone heads in 1982, Cypriot terracottas at University College Dublin in 1986 and calathoi on Larnaca figurines in the Louvre in 198811,12,13,14. Buchholz notes that four of the Dublin pieces came from the share of the Frangissa finds that Falkland Warren held before he left for Canada4. She reported on the 1985 Nicosia colloquium on Cyprus between the Orient and the Occident for the Cahiers du Centre d'Études Chypriotes2, and Décaudin's 1993 monograph describes her as a research officer (chargée de recherche) at the CNRS5.

Life and work

  1. 1981
    'Une tête chypriote dans une collection privée', RDAC 1981, 160-168

    Recke 2012

  2. 1982
    'À propos de couronnes sur les têtes masculines en calcaire de Chypre', RDAC 1982, 156-163 (cited by Décaudin 1993 for the crowned limestone heads at Cannes)

    Dissinger 2017Decaudin 1993

  3. 1985
    Reported on the international colloquium 'Cyprus between the Orient and the Occident' (Nicosia, 1985) in CCEC 4; Hermary called its published Actes an essential reference

    NicosiaHermary 1986

  4. 1986
    Published Cypriot terracottas at University College Dublin ('Terres cuites chypriotes à Dublin', RDAC 1986, 173-182); Buchholz identifies Nos. 1, 2, 3, 6 (UCD 93.94.97.161) as from Falkland Warren's share of the Frangissa finds, kept in the British Museum before his emigration to Canada

    DublinRecke 2018Buchholz 1991, n. 23

  5. 1988
    'Quelques types de calathoi sur des figurines provenant de Larnaca dans les collections du Louvre', RDAC 1988 (part 2), 45-51

    Karageorghis & Bukina 2005Decaudin 1993

  6. 1988
    Advised Masson and Hermary that the fan motif beneath the palmettes on the Idalion stele-capital (Nicosia Museum, old no. 6307, CCM 160, 146 x 54 cm) must be Egyptianizing; J. Yoyotte, consulted, thought it a plant motif evoking a flower necklace

    Masson & Hermary 1988, n. 27

  7. 1991
    'Portrait ou réminiscence? la tête féminine Louvre MNB 757', Cahiers (of the Louvre), 15:1, 13-23

    ParisDecaudin 1993

  8. 1998–2001
    At the 22nd British Museum Classical Colloquium (Dec 1998) presented the antiquarian Aimé Péretié from the Vogüé archives (Archives Nationales), the Louvre archives and Foreign Affairs archives; published 2001 (pp. 216-221). Shows 'M. Péretié' the dealer is Aimé (d. 1882), not his son Alfred, French consul at Larnaca. Aimé supplied the Duc de Luynes, Louis de Clercq (agent in Beirut from 1859), Vogüé, Waddington; sold the Dali bilingual tablet to Luynes in 1850; gave three limestone heads to the Louvre (1854, now unlocated)

    LondonCassimatis 2001, pp. 216-221

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Falkland WarrenNapoléon Antoine Aimé Pér…Annie CaubetValerie CookOlivier MassonAntoine HermaryAlfred PéretiéAnna CollingeHélène Cassimatis
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  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.Antoine Hermary (1986). “Chronique d'archéologie chypriote (1984-1985)”. Cahiers du Centre d'Études Chypriotes 5.
  3. 3.O. Masson, A. Hermary (1988). “Le voyage de Ludwig Ross à Chypre en 1845 et les antiquités chypriotes du Musée de Berlin”. Cahiers du Centre d'Études Chypriotes 9, 3-10. Online
  4. 4.Hans-Günter Buchholz (1991). “Tamassos-Phrangissa (1885)”. Cahiers du Centre d'Études Chypriotes 16, 3-15.
  5. 5.Antoinette J. Decaudin (1993). “Musée de Cannes. Chypre dans l'antiquité. Catalogue”. Cahiers du Centre d'Études Chypriotes 19. Online
  6. 6.Matthias Recke (2012). “Deutschland und das antike Zypern. Beiträge zur Geschichte einer archäologischen Disziplin”. Cahiers du Centre d'Études Chypriotes 42.
  7. 7.Alicia Marie Dissinger (2017). “Cypro-Archaic Bird Iconography: Types, Uses, and Meanings”. University of Virginia.
  8. 8.M. Recke (2018). Like Herrings in a Barrel: Max Ohnefalsch-Richter.
  9. 9.V. Karageorghis, O. Bukina (2005). Ancient Cypriote Art in Russian Museums. A. G. Leventis Foundation.
  10. 10.W. A. P. Childs (ed.), J. S. Smith (ed.), J. M. Padgett (ed.) (2012). City of Gold: The Archaeology of Polis Chrysochous, Cyprus. Princeton, Princeton University Art Museum.
  11. 11.H. Cassimatis (1981). “Une tête chypriote dans une collection privée”. Report of the Department of Antiquities, Cyprus, 160-168.
  12. 12.H. Cassimatis (1982). “À propos de couronnes sur les têtes masculines en calcaire de Chypre”. Report of the Department of Antiquities, Cyprus, 156-163.
  13. 13.H. Cassimatis (1986). “Terres cuites chypriotes à Dublin”. Report of the Department of Antiquities, Cyprus, 173-182.
  14. 14.H. Cassimatis (1988). “Quelques types de calathoi sur des figurines provenant de Larnaca dans les collections du Louvre”. Report of the Department of Antiquities, Cyprus, 45-51.
  15. 15.H. Cassimatis (1984). “Actualité chypriote, quelques artistes chypriotes”. Cahiers du Centre d'Études Chypriotes 1.