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135 - Auguste JOUVE (Cavaillon 1854 - 1936) The entrance to the pr…
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Auguste JOUVE (Cavaillon 1854 - 1936) The entrance to the property Original oil on canvas 46 x 55 cm Signed faintly lower left P. Aug Jouve Bears on the back the stencil mark of the canvas merchant Noséda in Avignon The Jouve family, heirs to a family that was involved in the silkworm seed trade (sericulture) and descendants of a fierce revolutionary nicknamed Jourdan Coupe-Tête, became small provincial notables in Cavaillon at the end of the 19th century. Two brothers and a sister, Michel (1852 - 1924), Auguste (1584 - 1936) and Marie-Thérèse (1860 - 1938), were deeply attached to their town and sensitive to its natural, monumental and everyday heritage. As they built it up, they conceived, organised and archived a Cavaillon memory in which their own history and that of an entire region, Cavaillon, were interwoven. By bequeathing the product of their passion and their lives to the Fondation Calvet in 1938, they were at the origin of the foundation of the Cavaillon museums. In addition to the collections built up for public benefit, the Jouve family had a "mania" for preserving everything. "mania" for preserving everything. Every trace of the family's history, every item worthy of their interest, is carefully archived: newspaper cuttings, account books, correspondence, historical notes, business cards, programmes... The Jouve family are both witnesses to their time and passers-by of a shared heritage. Witnesses of an era because their collections include every aspect of their lifestyle, that of a 19th-century bourgeois family in its relations with others (correspondence, diaries, photographs, etc.), its modus operandi (family relationships, income, etc.) and its tastes and fashions of the time (photography, home furnishings, library, travel, etc.). The exceptional photographic collection held by the Cavaillon museums is a living, breathing record of this way of life. Their house itself, bequeathed to the Calvet Foundation, is an expression of the interweaving of the Jouve family's personal history and that of the area: the home of the last rabbi of Cavaillon's Jewish community in the eighteenth century, it was the Jouve family's place of business before becoming their main home. The Jouve family set themselves up as defenders of Cavaillon's movable and immovable heritage at a time of major urban change in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. This defence took a variety of forms, but all converged on the desire to recognise Cavaillon's heritage: property acquisitions and restorations, collection of objects and creation of museums, historical research and handwritten notes, photographs of the town's heritage features, correspondence with the relevant contacts of their time, etc. Michel, Auguste and Marie-Thérèse Jouve were keenly aware of the notion of heritage, the need to protect it and pass it on to future generations, and initiated a genuine plan to safeguard the monuments and sites of their home town: purchase of part of the Saint-Jacques hill - and its chapel - to prevent any construction there (1904), acquisition of the chapel of the former Hôtel-Dieu to create a lapidary museum (1907), participation in the Sauvegarde du patrimoine juif cavaillonnais (Cavaillonnais Jewish heritage preservation association) through the gradual acquisition of the residential buildings of the former Jewish community. Under Marie-Thérèse's leadership, the Cavaillon archaeological museum was born. But the Jouve family's plans did not stop there, as they wished to develop the embryonic Musée du Vieux Cavaillon created in the family home, which was bequeathed to the Calvet Foundation for this purpose. The Noséda house on Rue des Marchands in Avignon supplied most of the artists in the region with canvases and colours.
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About the sale Small Works by Great Masters - Paintings from the 19th and 20th centuries
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