Recumbent Effigy of Victor Noir

The bronze figure of a man lies flat on the ground, captured in the exact posture of someone who has just collapsed. He wears a suit with every crease visible, and his top hat sits discarded on the pavement beside his head. Created by the sculptor Jules Dalou in eighteen ninety-one, this life-sized effigy marks the grave of the journalist Victor Noir, who died in eighteen seventy after being shot by Prince Pierre Bonaparte.