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Toulouse, Musée des Augustins

  • News Items : Latest Acquisitions at the Musée des Augustins 30/04/2014

    Legend goes that he discouraged his more timid students : "In that way, he did a great service to both art and artists"... Jules Garipuy taught at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Toulouse and directed the Musée des Augustins which today holds seven (...)

    Lire la suite par Bénédicte Bonnet Saint-Georges

  • Exhibitions : Bodies and Shadows. Caravaggio and European Caravaggism 13/08/2012

    With the sole exception, almost forty years ago now, of the exhibition organized by Jean-Pierre Cuzin and Arnauld Brejon de Lavergnée , which in fact included only French artists (or, some thought to be so at the time), there has not been a show (...)

    Lire la suite par Didier Rykner

  • Exhibitions : Intimate Scenes. French Genre Painting between the Revolution and the Restoration 27/11/2011

    The Musée des Augustins has chosen to approach the chaotic period between the French Revolution and the Restoration by way of genre painting. All of the canvases, some of which are unpublished, come exclusively from French collections, either (...)

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  • News Items : Three More Portraits by Benjamin-Constant at the Musée des Augustins 11/11/2011

    The Musée des Augustins owns an extensive group of works by Benjamin-Constant, a Parisian artist who went to Toulouse to study art. The highlight of this collection is the famous Mehmet II Entering Constantinople in 1453, presented at the Salon (...)

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  • News Items : The French Government Claims the Nicolas Tournier Painting and Is Now Holding it at the Ministry of Culture 09/11/2011

    The painting, Christ Carrying the Cross, now claimed by the French government from the London art dealer, Mark Weiss, is currently being held on the premises of the Service des musées de France. Talks are underway with the gallery, whose good (...)

    Lire la suite par Didier Rykner

  • News Items : The Imbroglio Concerning Nicolas Tournier’s Christ Carrying the Cross 07/11/2011

    Libération today revealed an affair about which we ourselves had been preparing an article in the last few days. A painting by Nicolas Tournier currently being shown by Mark Weiss at the Salon Paris, which had been presented at two Maastricht (...)

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  • Exhibitions : Antonio Verrio. Chroniques d’un peintre italien voyageur (1636-1707) 10/06/2010

    Antonio Verrio. The artist’s name is barely known today and yet he became painter to the king of England, Charles II, achieving international status and leaving behind painted murals in many British residences, including Windsor castle. Although (...)

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  • News Items : Antoine Rivalz painting purchased by the Musée des Augustins de Toulouse 22/12/2008

    Last 12 December at Drouot (Cornette de Saint Cyr SVV sale), the museum in Toulouse preempted a canvas by Antoine Rivalz, a native of that city, representing

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  • Exhibitions : No colour, just nuance ! Trompe l’œil and grisailles from Rubens to Toulouse-Lautrec 25/05/2008

    Strangely enough, grisaille, the technique by which an artist works without colour, using only the resources of white and black, has been rarely studied. And yet the subject is fascinating, raising many questions about the very act of painting. (...)

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