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Château de Montricoux
The Château de Montricoux, on the banks of the Aveyron in the Tarn-et-Garonne, is a former Templar commandery. In 1181 the monks of Saint-Antonin gave the seigneury to the Templars, who completed the keep in 1187. This square 12th-century keep, about twenty metres high, adjoins an 18th-century residence.
The oval entrance rotunda has four monumental statues by the sculptor Jean-Marie-Joseph Ingres, the painter's father. It leads to large rooms en suite with 18th-century panelling and a stone staircase with a 'Return from Egypt' style banister.
The château houses the Marcel Lenoir museum, created in tribute to the painter, who died at Montricoux in 1931, with some 130 of his works. In Montparnasse, Lenoir mixed with Modigliani, Léger and Picasso and explored Neo-Impressionism and pointillism.
