Musée Antoine Vivenel

The Musée Antoine Vivenel is the municipal museum of the city of Compiègne in northern France, located at 2, rue d'Austerlitz, 60200 Compiègne. It was founded in 1839, following an important gift by Antoine Vivenel, architect and art collector.

The museum has one of the largest collections of

Collections

Paintings

• Jean Bassange, (17th century), Adoration of the Shepherds, signed oil on canvas, 1,475 by 1,275.
• Langlois de Sézanne, (1757–1845 ?), Portrait of Madame Morel, pastel.
• Léon Matthieu Cochereau, (1793–1817), Portrait of Monsieur Chatard, left in 1925 by M. and Mme Léon Duchauvel.

Sculptures

• One of the 16 surviving Magdeburg Ivories, 10th century.^[2]
• Eugène Delaplanche, (1836–1891), Allegory of the Air, bronze.
• Auguste Joseph Peiffer, (1832–1886), Arab playing the mandolin and Arab playing the tambour.

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