Victorien Tournier

VICTORIEN TOURNIER (Grenoble, 1833-Paris, 1910).
"Le guet", 1903.
Marble.
Signed and titled.
Measurements: 52 x 70 x 36 cm.

Pupil of Victor Sappey and Michel-Pascal, he specialized in neo-gothic sculpture. He worked in particular for Notre Dame de Paris and the City Hall of Paris. From 1881 until his death, he worked on the sculptural ornamentation of the Basilica of the Sacré-Cœur in Montmartre.
His white marble statue Le Guet , a nude Gallic warrior on a rock, with his head raised, was exhibited at the Salon des Artistes Français in 1900. The city of Paris commissioned him in 1902 to create a monumental version of the work that has adorned the garden of the Sainte-Anne hospital in Paris since 1947.