Musée des Augustins

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Musée des Augustins de Toulouse
Fine arts
DirectorAxel Hémery
Websitehttp://www.augustins.org/en/

The Musée des Augustins de Toulouse is a fine arts museum in

Romanesque sculpture
.

History

A 19th-century illustration of the Musée des Augustins de Toulouse

The building in which the museum is sited was built in 1309, in the

French Convention, very shortly after the opening of the Louvre, making it one of the oldest museums in France after the Louvre and the Musée des Beaux Arts in Besançon.[3] It at first housed the Muséum Provisoire du Midi de la République and the école des Beaux-Arts
.

The Musée des Augustins de Toulouse was one of fifteen museums founded in provincial centres, by a decree of 13

basilique Saint-Sernin. Today the cloister houses a reconstructed medieval garden. The building was classed as a Monument historique in 1840.[4]

Collections

Paul Claudel aged sixteen by Camille Claudel, modeled in 1884 and cast in 1893

The progressive concern of the museum's founder Jean-Antoine Chaptal, an early example of cultural devolution, was intended to ensure that "each collection presents an interesting series of paintings representing all the masters, all the genres and all the schools". In a series of shipments culminating in 1811, Toulouse was enriched with works by Guercino, Pietro Perugino, Rubens and Philippe de Champaigne.

The collections total over 4,000 works and their core derives from confiscation of Church property at the time of the French Revolution as well as seizures of the private collections of émigrés, in Toulouse notably the paintings of the cardinal de Bernis and Louis-Auguste le Tonnelier, baron de Breteuil. The museum's church even houses an organ built in 1981 by Jürgen Ahrend when Denis Milhau[5][circular reference] was director of the musée between 1963 and 1994.

Paintings

The French schools of the 15th to 18th centuries are represented by

Baciccio, Carlo Maratta, Crespi, Francesco Solimena, Guardi. Flemish and Dutch painting is represented with paintings by Cornelis van Haarlem, Rubens, Anthony van Dyck, Jacob Jordaens, Jan van Goyen, Aelbert Cuyp, Pieter Coecke van Aelst and Cornelis van Poelenburgh while for Spain the museum notably displays one painting by Bartolomé Esteban Murillo
.

Sculpture

The museum's sculpture collection is in large part due to the rescue activities of antiquaries and museum curators such as Alexandre du Mège who managed to extricate sculpture from the frequent destruction of religious buildings that marked the 19th century. It is particularly strong in 12th-century Romanesque sculpture from the city's three main religious buildings - the priory of

Saint-Étienne. Jorge Pardo realizes the new presentation of Romanesque sculpture. It also includes many 14th and 15th century locally produced sculptures and eight 16th century terracotta figures from the chapelle de Rieux (Nostre Dame de Grasse and works by the master of Rieux), built around 1340 in the couvent des Cordeliers, as well as gargoyles from the same convent. It also houses 19th century sculpture, with plaster works by Alexandre Falguière and his pupil Antonin Mercié, as well as works by Rodin and a bronze by Camille Claudel
.

  • Salvaged gargoyles displayed in the cloister
    Salvaged
    gargoyles
    displayed in the cloister
  • Hall of Romanesque capitals
    Hall of Romanesque capitals
  • Sculptures by the Master of Rieux - In the foreground, Jean Tissendier, bishop of Rieux
    Sculptures by the Master of Rieux - In the foreground, Jean Tissendier, bishop of Rieux
  • Saint Paul by the Master of Rieux, 1333-1343
    Saint Paul by the Master of Rieux, 1333-1343
  • Nostre Dame de Grasse (1460-1500)
    Nostre Dame de Grasse (1460-1500)
  • Lady Tholose, 1544-1550
    Lady Tholose, 1544-1550

See also

  • Listing of the works of Alexandre Falguière

References

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Musée des Augustins de Toulouse.
  1. ^ Chalande, Jules (1921), "Histoire des rues de Toulouse: 230- Le musée des Augustins", Mémoires de l'Académie des sciences, inscriptions et belles-lettres de Toulouse, 9 (11): 143
  2. Jacques-Paul Migne
    éditeur. 1855. p. col. 1301.
  3. ISBN 2-7089-5811-9
  4. ^ Base Mérimée: PA00094510, Ministère français de la Culture. (in French)
  5. ^ fr:Denis Milhau

External links

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