Hôtel d'Assézat

The main courtyard of the Hôtel d'Assézat.

The Hôtel d'Assézat in Toulouse, France, is a Renaissance hôtel particulier (palace) of the 16th century which houses the Bemberg Foundation, a major art gallery of the city.

History

The Hôtel d'Assézat has probably been built by Toulouse architect Nicolas Bachelier for Pierre d'Assézat, a rich tolosan manufacturer. The construction of the Hôtel began in 1555 and was not yet completed when Pierre d'Assézat died in 1581. It is an outstanding example of Renaissance palaces architecture of southern France, with an elaborate decoration of the cour d'honneur (courtyard) influenced by Italian manierism and by classicism. The use of brick is typical of Toulouse. The Hôtel now belongs to the City of Toulouse and was restored in the 1980s.

The Bemberg Foundation

Charles IX of France by François Clouet.
Entrance of the Hôtel seen from the courtyard.

Since 1994 the Hôtel d'Assézat houses the Bemberg Foundation (Fondation Bemberg), an art gallery which presents to the public one of the major private collection of art in Europe : the personal collection of the wealthy Argentine Georges Bemberg (1915–2011). His foundation has been created in collaboration with the City of Tolouse. The large collection of Bemberg features paintings, drawings, sculptures, ancient books and furniture. Paintings and drawings are the highlights of the collection, especially 19th and early 20th century French painting (with impressionism, Nabis, post-impressionism and fauvism) and Venetian painting of the 16th and 18th centuries. The painting and drawing collection includes an impressive set of 30 paintings by Pierre Bonnard and works by Canaletto, Francesco Guardi, Pietro Longhi, Rosalba Carriera, Giovanni Paolo Pannini, Tiepolo, François Boucher, Elisabeth Vigée-Lebrun, Hubert Robert, Pieter de Hooch, Jean Clouet, François Clouet, studio of Rogier van der Weyden, Lucas Cranach, Gérard David, Adriaen Isenbrandt, Joachim Patinir, Pieter Brueghel the Younger, Frans Pourbus the Elder, Paris Bordone, Jacopo Bassano, Titian, Paul Veronese, Tintoretto, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Eugène Boudin, Claude Monet, Henri Fantin-Latour, Edgar Degas, Édouard Vuillard, Odilon Redon, Paul Sérusier, Paul Gauguin, Louis Valtat, Alfred Sisley, Camille Pissarro, Gustave Caillebotte, Berthe Morisot, Paul Signac, Paul Cézanne, Georges Rouault, André Derain, Henri Matisse, Raoul Dufy, Albert Marquet, Maurice de Vlaminck, Kees van Dongen, Pablo Picasso, Georges Braque, Othon Friesz, Amedeo Modigliani, Maurice Utrillo...

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Coordinates: 43°36′01″N 1°26′31″E / 43.6003°N 1.4420°E / 43.6003; 1.4420

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