Nicolas Tournier, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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French painter
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Place of Birth: Montbéliard, Bourgogne-Franche-Comté, France
About Nicolas Tournier
- Nicolas Tournier (baptised 12 July 1590 – d.
- before February 1639) was a French Baroque painter. Born in Montbéliard, he followed the profession of his father, André Tournier, "a Protestant painter from Besançon".
- Little is known of his life before his arrival in Rome, where he worked between 1619 and 1626, and where he was influenced by the work of Caravaggio.
- According to one early source, he was a pupil of Valentin de Boulogne.
- Tournier's Roman paintings are stylistically close to the works of Bartolomeo Manfredi.
- He painted both secular and religious subjects; an example of the latter is The Crucifixion with St.
- Vincent de Paul (Paris, The Louvre).
- After 1626 Tournier was active in southern France.
- He died in Toulouse. His work The Carrying of the Cross, painted around 1632, originally hung in the Toulouse chapel of the Company of the Black Penitents.
- During the French Revolution it was confiscated by the state and moved to a museum, from where it was stolen in 1818.
- 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.
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