Etudes prises dans le bas Peuple où les Cris de Paris
Dimensions
Overall: 13 3/4 x 10 3/4 x 13/16 in. (35 x 27.3 x 2 cm)
Classification
Books
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1940
Accession Number
40.120
About the Artist
Edme Bouchardon|Anne Claude Philippe de Tubières, comte de Caylus · 1698–1762
Born 29 May 1698; died 27 July 1762. Bouchardon was a student of Guillaume Coustou, and won the prix de Rome in 1722. He spent ten years (1722-1732) in Rome, Italy working on various projects for Pope Clement XII. In 1732 Bouchardon was recalled to Paris and named sculptor to the king. Bouchardon became a professor at the Académie Royale in 1746. He worked on an equestrian monument of Louis XV, Ki...