The Musée Angladon is one of the best small museums in Provence — not a blockbuster, but a genuinely surprising private collection assembled by fashion designer Jacques Doucet and his wife, and bequeathed to the city. The house itself, a 17th-century hôtel particulier, is beautifully preserved, and the works are displayed as they were in a private home rather than a gallery.
The Van Gogh is the famous piece — his 1888 canvas of railway wagons at Arles, the only painting by Van Gogh permanently housed in Provence. But the collection extends to Picasso, Modigliani, Manet, and Cézanne, plus a fascinating survey of oriental art and 18th-century French furniture that reflects Doucet's broader taste. It is the kind of collection that could only have been assembled by someone with both money and an independent eye, and the intimacy of the house setting makes it far more interesting than the same works would be in a larger institution.