Joseph Tournois

Then he moved to Rome and lived in the Académie de France à Rome of Villa Medici, from 27 January 1858 to 31 December 1862. In 1868, he participated in the Salon des artistes français, with a sculpture in plaster Bacchus inventant la comédie. This work was later acquired by the State and Victor Thiebaut created a copy of the work in bronze. The sculpture is currently installed in the Jardin du Luxembourg in Paris. In 1870, Tournois participated in the Salon des artistes français with a status of Perseus, made in plaster. The work was later owned by the State. In 1875, Tournois made another statue of Perseus, but this time it was in marble.

Joseph Tournois studied at Beaux-Arts de Paris and French Academy in Rome. Training under François Jouffroy and François Rude is recorded. The recorded working language is French. Works named in the authority record are François Rude. Distinctions recorded are Prix de Rome, resident at the Villa Medici and Knight of the Legion of Honour.

• Bust of Armand-Gaston Camus (1740–1804), Palace of Versailles, Versailles • Perseus, 1875, Musée de Dijon • Ulysse blessé à la chasse par un sanglier, bas-relief, Musée de l'École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts • Bacchus inventant la comédie, sculpture, jardin du Luxembourg • Hercules, 1891, colossal statue in gilded bronze, park of Vaux-le-Vicomte