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
Rights
Public Domain
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...