Tomb of Philippe Pot - French Sculptures from the XVth Century

Finding Philippe Pot's Tomb was Gina's goal.  Or as we both came to call it, that statue with the Monks.  A much more worthy goal than my Rembrandt obsession.  I think the fact that the Holland section was closed during our 2008 visit clouded my vision a bit.  I mean I like Rembrandt, but the reality did not live up to my mind's hype.

Four years ago we walked around the corner and encountered Philippe Pot.  Not noting that name turned out to make the pursuit of our reuniting more difficult than it needed to be.  We thought we might just run into the statue yesterday, but sore feet, and a misguided sense of the period of the statue led us astray.

We did remember how striking the statue was, and were unwilling to concede defeat.  We knew that today the Louvre was open for free.  Since our four day museum pass was still valid, we did not necessarily view that as a positive for easily entering the Louvre.

After visiting the D'Orsay Museum this morning we walked across the Seine to see if the Louvre would prove to be an absolute madhouse.  We saw a long line to get into the glass pyramid, but also saw a couple of signs that led to a different entrance for those who already held tickets.  Usually holding tickets only means that you can bypass the long line for bag checking, what we found was that on days that the Louvre is free, holding tickets provides you with access to a side entrance that almost seemed to be a private entrance for just us, for how easy access turned out to be.  (Note: this entrance may always be available for ticket holders, this was the first time we saw it.)

I had done a little internet searching the previous evening to pinpoint where the statue was.  It turned out to be a French sculpture from the 15th century.  We both thought of it as more of a middle aged statue, possibly from the 11th or 12th century, and did not think that it as French.  We had been so close, walking in just about every room around it,  but never thinking to enter the French Sculpture section.

Below are a video and some pictures detailing the statue, with close-ups of the haunting faces of the monks.  This turned out to be a worthy reason to visit the Louvre for the third time in three days.