Draguignan - Ursuline Convent Museum

Not far northwest of the clock tower, in the Rue de la République in Draguignan, stands a former 17th C Ursuline convent which was later the summer residence of the Bishop of Fréjus.

It now houses a museum which has a number of treasures (Rembrandt: "Child blowing soap-bubbles"; Franz Hals: "Kitchen Interior", as well as paintings by Van Loo, J. Parrocel and Ziem, and a sculpture by Camille Claudel. Also notable are ceramics (Moustiers, Sèvres), furniture, French and Flemish 17th C painting, an illuminated manuscript (with pictures) of the "Roman de la Rose", the most important work of courtly poetry in France (12th C) and an illustrated Bible in Latin with 2,000 engravings which dates from 1493 and which came from a workshop in Nuremberg.