[3] The museum is located in the right wing of the Palais Longchamp, built by the architect Henri-Jacques Espérandieu between 1862, and 1869 to commemorate the arrival in the city of waters of the Durance river through the Canal de Marseille.

The building has rich sculptural decoration, including the group of the Durance by Jules Cavelier and four wild animals by Antoine-Louis Barye at the entrance.

[2] The painting collection includes works of the French, Italian, Spanish and Northern (Flanders and Holland) schools.

The Italian school is represented with drawings by Pontormo, Guercino, Giovanni Lanfranco, Salvator Rosa and with twenty one Tuscan drawings from the 16th and early 17th centuries by Fra Angelico, Bartolommeo Bandinelli, Francesco Salviati, Baldassare Peruzzi, Il Sodoma and Giorgio Vasari.

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