On 17th December 1793, the decision was made to add the Augustins museum to the list of the fifteen museums instituted by the decree of "13 Fructidor year IX" (31th August 1801 in the French republican calendar). It was named the Chaptal decree, after the minister of the interior of the time. Its proposition consisted of distributing batches of art between each of the towns involved so that "each collection presents an interesting series of paintings representing all the masters, all the genres and all the schools". On 1st September 1801 another decree was issued demanding that all the towns should prepare "a suitable gallery" at their own expense, to accommodate new deliveries of works (more than 600 were to arrive in successive waves in 1802, 1805 and then on 15th February 1811 by imperial decree). The last delivery was one of the largest the museum ever received. Today, these collections represent more than 4000 pieces, of which there are an equal number of paintings and sculpture. The collection grew around the initial core that mainly consisted of revolutionary seizures (nearly 250 works, mainly from the collections of the cardinal de Bernis and Le Tonnelier de Breteuil). Funds diverted from the old Royal Academy of painting and sculpture in Toulouse founded in 1750 were poured into the museum. More than three hundred and fifty deliveries were brought from national collections. With them came masterpieces by Guerchin, Perugino, Rubens, Champaigne, etc. The city of Toulouse added their own acquisitions from legacies (239 works) and donations (725 works) thus embellishing the collection with masterpieces by Roques, François de Troy, Valenciennes and Corot. The museum's sculpture collection exists thanks to the initiative of reputable archaeologists and curators such as Alexandre Du Mège who managed to save a great number of remarkable works during the frequent destruction of religious buildings in the 19th century. These works are the pride of our sculpture collection. Here, collections are presented chronologically and according to their position in the museum. Wherever you are in this section of the site, if you click on Plan, you will be able to locate each work in the its respective section of the museum.