Admiral de Tourville (1642–1701)

Joseph-Charles Marin

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

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.

European Sculpture and Decorative Arts

An exhibit at Metropolitan Museum of Art

The fifty thousand objects in the Museum's comprehensive and historically important collection of European sculpture and decorative arts reflect the development of a number of art forms in Western European countries from the early fifteenth through the early twentieth century. The holdings include sculpture in many sizes and media, woodwork and furniture, ceramics and glass, metalwork and jewelry, horological and mathematical instruments, and tapestries and textiles. Ceramics made in Asia for export to European markets and sculpture and decorative arts produced in Latin America during this period are also included among these works.

Metropolitan Museum of Art