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The Augustins museum, in Toulouse...
a remarkable collection of sculptures

Housed since 1793 in the Augustinian monastery building, it offers the visitor the chance to stroll in one of the finest monastic buildings from the 14 and the 15th centuries. With a collection of exhibits unique in the field of Romanesque sculptures, the museum also houses masterpieces of Southern Gothic as well as a fine selection of Renaissance and classical works from Toulouse. Painting is well represented with a fine Italian collection including works by Perugino, Guido, Crespi, Guardi... French painting from the 17th to the 19th centuries features Champagne, Largillière, Vigié-Lebrun, Ingres, Delacroix, Corot and Courbet, as well as canvasses of early modern art - Monet, Toulouse-Lautrec, Vuillard... A representative selection of paintings from the Golden Ages of painting in Toulouse rounds off the tour, with works by Chalette, Tournier, Jean-Pierre and Antoine Rivalz, Jean and François de Troy, Roques... Augustins Museum 21, rue de Metz, 31000 Toulouse - France Tel. (33)5 61 22 21 82