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Albi Apostles

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The Albi Apostles was a c.1620 set of thirteen oil-on-canvas paintings of Christ and his apostles by Georges de La Tour. Around 1690 they were bought by Jean-Baptiste Nualard, a canon of Albi Cathedral, for one of the cathedral's chapels. However, they were split up after 1795 and only five of the works survive, two at the Musée Toulouse-Lautrec (with copies of the lost paintings[1]), two more in private collections and one at the Chrysler Museum of Art.[2]

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  1. ^ "Catalogue entry" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2016-03-03. Retrieved 2019-03-11.
  2. ^ (in French) Pierre Rosenberg, Marina Mojana, Georges de La Tour, catalogue complet des peintures, Paris, Bordas 1992