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The Augustins museum is also home to an ensemble of large paintings commissioned for the decorations of the Capitole in 1684 (Jean Jouvenet: Founding of a town in Germania by the Tectosagaes, Bon Boullongne: The migration of the Tectosagae) and at the beginning of the 18th century.
Work by Antoine Rivalz (1667-1735), who was often called upon by the Capitouls (high level local governors), is particularly well represented in the Augustins. After living for twelve years in Rome, he returned to Toulouse in 1700. Apart from his contribution to the decorations in the city hall, he left numerous portraits and historical paintings (The Rape of the Sabines). For the city hall, he completed several large compositions such as The Battle won by the Tectosagae over the king Antiochus (1702), The king Théodoric Ier takes the count Litorius captive in Toulouse (1706), Raymond de Saint-Gilles taking up the cross (1706) and The Expulsion of the Huguenots from Toulouse (1723-1727). These "great historical machines" are influenced by the example of the compositions executed in Versailles in the Charles Le Brun suite. Pierre Subleyras (1699-1749) was also called upon for the Capitole of Toulouse . His Coronation of Louis XV is a remarkable example of great history painting from the first half of the 18th century. Equally worthy of mention is the work of Joseph Roques, a painter from Toulouse, who was one of Ingres' masters and who is one of the best representatives of neo-classicism outside of Paris. His Mort de Marat, painted in 1793, on the same theme as the famous painting by David, which is kept in the musée royal des beaux-arts in Bruxelles, embodies the moralistic values and philosophical ideas related to the Revolution. |