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Collector · Donor

Vicomte Lepic

1839–1889 · France

French collector and donor. Collected at Paris and Larnaca-Salines. Gave to Musée des Antiquités Nationales.

Life and work

  1. 1860s
    Caubet lists the vicomte Lepic among Parisian collectors (with Gréau and Piot) in whose cabinets many objects looted from Cyprus in the period after the 1862 Duthoit/Vogüé expedition ended up.

    ParisCaubet 1993

  2. 1870
    'La même année' as the March 1870 Cesnola sale purchases, 'un habitué du musée', the Vicomte Lepic (1839-1889) gave the Musée des Antiquités Nationales about fifty Hellenistic terracottas and two stone statuettes, probably from Kition near the 'Artemis Paralia' temple (the Salines de Larnaca), perhaps in thanks for the freedom Bertrand and de Mortillet gave him to study the collections.

    Saint-Germain-en-Laye

Connections

2 people

Sales, gifts & bequests

Scholarship

Objects

  • c. 50 Hellenistic terracottas and 2 stone statuettes, probably from the Salines de Larnaca (Kition)

    From Larnaca-Salines (probable)Musée d'Archéologie nationale, Saint-Germain-en-Laye1870

Sources

  1. 1.Annie Caubet (1993). “Les antiquités chypriotes au Musée du Louvre”. Kinyras : l'archéologie française à Chypre. Lyon. Online