"Joseph Gabriel Tourny 1817-1880. "poetry.""
Joseph Gabriel Tourny 1817-1880."Poetry." (After Raphael in the hall of signatures in the Vatican.)
Watercolour.
Signed and located in Rome, dated 1858 at the bottom.
Diameter of the subject: 47 cm.
Dimensions with its frame: 75 × 75 cm.
He won the first Prix de Rome for engraving in 1847. He exhibited at the Paris Salon from 1857. During a stay in Rome, he copied the frescoes of the Sistine Chapel in watercolor. Most of these watercolors were bequeathed to the Louvre Museum by President Thiers.
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