Young man with a mustache and wearing a bow tie
Bronze bas-relief
Diam. 21.5 cm
Signed and dated: DAMIE/NS. 1859
Wooden frame
Pierre Damien, born in 1824 in Saint-Germain-d'Arcé near Tours, was a pupil of Jean-Marie Bonnassieux in Paris. He spent most of his career in Tours, where today there is a street named after him. The cathedral and churches of Tours have many works by his hand.