The Musée des Augustins historic fund preserves works exemplifying the regular exchanges between the Netherlands, the Iberian Peninsula and Toulouse in the 15th and 16th centuries. This is why it seemed fitting to purchase The Deposition by Storm, also called Esturmio (circa 1500-1556), which dates from the period prior to his becoming established in Seville in 1537.

This small canvas was undoubtedly a private devotional painting as was seen in the Netherlands in the first half of the 16th century.
This dramatic work, in which the symbols of the Passion impose their haunting presence, takes up its rightful place into the museum collection.

Dame Tholose was commissioned in 1544 to sculptor Jean Rancy (born 1502) by the capitouls (municipal magistrates) of Toulouse, to serve as support for a vane topping the city archives tower (today the tourist office). Rancy carved a wooden model, which was then moulded and cast in bronze by Claude Pelhot, who cast cannons for a living, in 1550. This casting is a work of exceptional technical mastery for the period, outside of royal commissions. The work’s creator, Jean Rancy, should be considered one of the greatest sculptors of the French Renaissance.