Nicolas Tournier

Born in Montbéliard, he followed the profession of his father, André Tournier, "a Protestant painter from Besançon".

[1] Tournier's Roman paintings are stylistically close to the works of Bartolomeo Manfredi.

[1] He painted both secular and religious subjects; an example of the latter is The Crucifixion with St. Vincent de Paul (Paris, The Louvre).

His work The Carrying of the Cross, painted around 1632, originally hung in the Toulouse chapel of the Company of the Black Penitents.

After being lost for nearly two centuries, it reappeared in 2009 during an art collector's estate sale in Florence; when the Weiss Gallery of London purchased it in a Paris auction in 2011, the French government classified it as stolen property and banned it from leaving the country.