Admiral De Tourville by Marin in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, July 2023

Title: Admiral de Tourville (1642–1701)

Artist: Joseph-Charles Marin (French, Paris 1759–1834 Paris)

Date: 1816

Culture: French

Medium: Terracotta

Dimensions: 16 1/4 × 8 × 6 1/2 in. (41.3 × 20.3 × 16.5 cm)

Classification: Sculpture

Credit Line: Purchase, Gift of Mrs. Herbert N. Strauss, by exchange, 1987

Accession Number: 1987.153

The restoration monarchy of Louis XVIII commissioned from leading sculptors a series of colossal marble statues of past royalist luminaries to line the Pont de la Concorde in Paris. That of Tourville, a dashing naval hero under Louis XIV, now stands before the town hall of his birthplace, Tourville-sur-Sienne.

Text from: www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/207687