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OCR: Musee du uxembourg museum in Paris that served renository for officially paasuods works ofart such it became an official organ af fi contemporary taste The structure that housed the collections, originally built t accommodate Marie de'Medici, became the meeting place for the House of Peers In 1818 the building was turned into national ar gallery stocked with the works of aging artists When officially favored French painters died their works were transferred to the collections af the Louvre rt provincial repositories. By Van Gogh's day, the Luxembourg contained works Millet, Daubigny, and Corot a1l painters who vanious reasons had finally beer accepted into the canan f contem parary taste repository sponsored turmed thei various been