Gaston Virebent (1837-1925) is one of the creators of the modern art of ceramics. His father was also famous as the architect who invented new ways to make bricks, the traditional building material of the French Southwest, and renovated much of Toulouse and the region. Gaston ventured into ceramics; of his many celebrated accomplishments Villebrumier is one of the most impressive, commissioned by Count Jean de Marigny.
In all of France, the Castle of Villebrumier is the only castle with outside ceramics, where Virebent let his imagination loose with motives of “putti” riding dragons and keeping them at bay.