"Joseph Gabriel Tourny 1817-1880. "poetry.""
Joseph Gabriel Tourny 1817-1880. "Poetry." (after Raphael in the Hall of Signatures at the Vatican.)
Watercolor. Signed and located in Rome, dated 1858 at the bottom.
Diameter of the subject : 47 cm.
Dimensions with its frame : 75 × 75 cm.
He was awarded the first prize in 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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