Painting, Musee Calvet, Avignon, France
Francois I at the Vaucluse fountain, detail, oil painting on canvas, 1820, by Jean Joseph Xavier Bidault, 1758-1856, depicting the king tracing verses with his finger on the tomb of Laura, muse of Petrarch, at the Cordeliers convent at Avignon on 8th September 1533, in the Musee Calvet, founded by Esprit Calvet, housed in the Hotel de Villeneuve-Martignan, an 18th century mansion, in Avignon, Provence, France. The building houses the fine arts collections of the museum, and is listed as a historic monument. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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