Musée du Louvre

Bouchardon (1698-1762) A Sublime Idea of Beauty

14 September 2016 5 December 2016 Exhibition Finished
The Musée du Louvre and the J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles pay tribute to Edme Bouchardon, a renowned French sculptor and draftsman, who was considered an exceptional artist in his own time. The son of an architect-sculptor, he trained at the Royal Academy of Painting and Sculpture in Paris before spending a productive period at the French Academy in Rome (1723-32). Learning of Bouchardon's great reputation, the...
Listed in the *Encyclopédie*-Diderot and d'Alembert's encyclopedic dictionary of the sciences, arts, and trades-as the continuator of Puget and Girardon, Bouchardon was regarded by his contemporaries as the advocate of artistic renewal, "the greatest sculptor and the best draftsman of his century" (Cochin). While many studies have shed new light on our understanding of Neoclassicism, this exhibition-the first major monograph on Bouchardon's oeuvre-will be an opportunity to comprehend the sculptor's style, a perfect balance between classical influence and life-like rendering.
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