Musee Paul Dupuy. The Paul-Dupuy Museum is a municipal museum, located between the Saint-Etienne district and the Parliament district in Toulouse.
It presents a collection of graphic arts and works of art from the Middle Ages to 1939. The museum is located rue de la Pleau, in the old hotel of Pierre Besson bought in 1909 by Paul Dupuy.
He undertook a major restoration of the building: raising, adding a floor of mirandes, completion of the chapter turret and restoration of the brick facade. First a private museum, it became the city of Toulouse museum in 1949, after the legacy of the private collections of Paul Dupuy and the building to France.
In 1968, the museum acquired the building located 8, rue d'Aussargues, completely renovated and enlarged from 1980 to 1985. The collections are made up of the legacy of Paul Dupuy, to which is added the gift of Edouard Gélis, the Rozès de Brousse collection composed of drawings, prints and posters and the Regraffé collection by Miribel.The cabinet of drawings was created in 1949.
It brings together two main collections, accounting for more than 6,000 works dating from the 15th to the 19th century: drawings by southern artists on the one hand, and those of Italian artists on the other hand, but also Eugène Delacroix.
It presents a collection of graphic arts and works of art from the Middle Ages to 1939. The museum is located rue de la Pleau, in the old hotel of Pierre Besson bought in 1909 by Paul Dupuy.
He undertook a major restoration of the building: raising, adding a floor of mirandes, completion of the chapter turret and restoration of the brick facade. First a private museum, it became the city of Toulouse museum in 1949, after the legacy of the private collections of Paul Dupuy and the building to France.
In 1968, the museum acquired the building located 8, rue d'Aussargues, completely renovated and enlarged from 1980 to 1985. The collections are made up of the legacy of Paul Dupuy, to which is added the gift of Edouard Gélis, the Rozès de Brousse collection composed of drawings, prints and posters and the Regraffé collection by Miribel.The cabinet of drawings was created in 1949.
It brings together two main collections, accounting for more than 6,000 works dating from the 15th to the 19th century: drawings by southern artists on the one hand, and those of Italian artists on the other hand, but also Eugène Delacroix.
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