During his visit to Toulouse in 1808, Napoleon confirmed that the Augustins convent would be definitively used as a museum and, in 1812, thirty new paintings were sent to begin the collection. To name but a few, the magnificent Réception du Duc de Longueville dans l'ordre du Saint-Esprit (The Duke de Longueville being received into the order of the Holy-Spirit) by Philippe de Champaigne and numerous Dutch, Flemish, Italian and French works. In addition to these acquisitions were works seized during the revolution. Hence an anthology of western painting was constituted with some exceptional masterpieces which were distributed between the church of the Augustins convent and the painting halls in the Viollet-Le-Duc wing. The strength in these collections lies in the 17th Century European paintings. Several great names in the history of painting figure among these; Jacopo Barbieri (called le Guerchin) (The Glory of all the saints from the high altar in the oratory of the Stigmata of Modena brotherhood), Francesco Cairo, Peter Paulus Rubens (Christ on the Cross from the high altar of the Capuchins of Antwerp), Anton Van Dyck, Jacques Stella (The marriage of the Virgin), Sébastien Bourdon, etc. These paintings illustrate the major aesthetic revolutions that punctuated the centuries, from mannerism to the austere naturalism of the Caravaggio school (Nicolas Tournier), from Bolognese classicism (Carlo Bononi) to the baroque lyricism of a Gaulli. Spanish painting is represented by a very beautiful work by Bartolomeo Esteban Murillo, The Ecstasy of San Diego de Alcala de Henares, from the Franciscan convent in Seville. Flemish and Dutch painting is represented by an ensemble of works illustrating late mannerism (Thomas Willeboirts alias Bosschaert), the beginnings of the baroque age (Jan Erasmus Quellinus, The Martyr of saint Laurent), the golden age of portraiture from the Northern schools (Nicolas Maes, Pieter Snayers), still life (Jacob van Es, Willhelm van Aelst) and landscape (Gillis Rombouts, Landscape). These works mainly originate from revolutionary seizures from the collections of Bernis and Le Tonnelier de Breteuil. Although incomplete, this collection is entirely representative of the tastes of art collectors at the end of the 18th Century. 17th Century Italian historical painting and portraiture is represented by some remarkable Bolognese (Guido Reni, Apollo and Marsyas, Giuseppe Maria Crespi) and Genoan (Bernardo Strozzi, Portrait of a man) canvases. These works provide a very interesting complement to the series of French paintings presented on the first floor. Here, portraiture is strongly represented in works by Jean Chalette, Hyacinthe Rigaud (Portrait of Germain-Louis de Chauvelin), François de Troy and Antoine Rivalz (Portrait of Jean-Pierre Rivalz). Likewise for French 17th Century still life, represented by three paintings by Louise Moillon (Fruits), one of the rare female painters of the time, and two works by Jean Monnoyer.