Olivier Voutier

He took two sailors with shovels and picks, and began digging in the ruins of an ancient theater located on the side of the island's highest hill.

Voutier and the sailors found marble fragments, a bust, a carved foot, and two statues missing their heads, hands and feet.

Over the next ten days, Voutrier brought Louis Brest, the French vice-consul on Milos, to see what he had found, along with a number of sailors and naval officers.

[3] D'Urville wrote to the French Ambassador in Constantinople, the Marquis de Riviere, then went in person and persuaded him to buy the statue for France, which he did.

In March 1822 the Minister of War of the provisional government of Greece, Ioannis Kolettis, gave Voutier the assignment of laying siege to the center of Athens without damaging its monuments.