A special place must be set aside for Nicolas Bachelier, whose working life spanned the middle of the 16th Century. The museum conserves some of his rare sculptures originating from the retable of Saint-Etienne cathedral and an ensemble of twenty-three remarkable busts from the tower of the Dalbade church in Toulouse, which collapsed on 11th April 1926. These busts by Bachelier and his pupils, were displayed forty metres high, above the first floor of the tower. There must have been about thirty or forty on the frieze and maybe some are still to be discovered. They were probably accomplished from around 1545, at the same time as the church retables. They correspond to a decorative theme that was very popular in the region in the first half of the 16th century, both in secular and religious architecture (for example, at the hôtels de Pins, Béringuier-Maynier, de Bernuy, Bruxelles in Toulouse, and in the châteaux de Montals and de Bournazel). In another series of sculptures from the Dalbade, four large reliefs by Nicolas Bachelier, constitute the only remaining souvenirs of the large retable, demolished in 1741. ( Taking to the tomb,Annunciation, Nativity and adoration of the shepherds, Adoration of the Magi, Presentation to the temple).