Joseph Tournois

Joseph Tournois (born in Chazeuil on 18 November 1831,[citation needed] died in Dijon in September 1891) was a French sculptor.

He attended the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts, where he created Ulysse blessé à la chasse par un sanglier, a bas-relief with whom he won the first Grand Prix de Rome for sculpture in 1857.

[1] In 1868, he participated in the Salon des artistes français, with a sculpture in plaster Bacchus inventant la comédie.

With this sculpture, Tournois participated in 1869 in the Salon de la Culture, then in the Exposition Universelle in Vienna in 1873.

In 1870, Tournois participated in the Salon des artistes français with a status of Perseus, made in plaster.