Choiseul-Gouffier Apollo [SEP] material used
Choiseul-Gouffier Apollo
The Choiseul-Gouffier Apollo is a lifesize marble statue formerly in the collection of the comte Marie-Gabriel-Florent-Auguste de Choiseul-Gouffier (1752–1817), member of the académie française and French ambassador to the Sublime Porte from 1784 until the fall of the monarchy. It is now conserved in the British Museum.
The nude sculpture of a naked youth, perhaps representing the god Apollo or a victorious athlete, is an Imperial Roman copy, dated 1st century AD, of a Greek
by a branch of the house of Choiseul, to produce the house of Choiseul-Gouffier.
The name Gouffier was also used by the unrelated lords of Rilhac-Lastours; see Gouffier of Lastours.