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EDME BOUCHARDON (1698-1762)

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Originally appearing in Volume V04, Page 311 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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BOUCHARDON (1698-1762)  , See also:French sculptor, was esteemed in his See also:day the greatest sculptor of his See also:time . See also:Born at Chaumont, he became the See also:pupil of See also:Guillaume See also:Coustou and gained the prix de See also:Rome in 1722 . Resisting the tendency of the day he was classic in his See also:taste, pure and chaste, always correct, charming and distinguished, a See also:great stickler for all the finish that See also:sand-See also:paper could give . During the ten years he remained at Rome, See also:Bouchardon made a striking bust of See also:Pope See also:Benedict XIII . (1730) . In 1746 he produced his first acclaimed See also:master-piece, " See also:Cupid fashioning a See also:Bow out of the See also:Club of See also:Hercules," perfect in its See also:grace, but See also:cold in the purity of its classic See also:design . His two other leading chefs-d'oeuvre are the See also:fountain in the See also:rue de Grenelle, See also:Paris, the first portions of which had been finished and exhibited in 1740, and the equestrian statue of See also:Louis XV., a See also:commission from the See also:city of Paris . This superb See also:work, which, when the See also:model was produced, was declared the finest work of its' See also:kind ever produced in See also:France, Bouchardon did not live to finish, but See also:left its completion to Pigalie . It was destroyed during the Revolution . Among the See also:chief books on the sculptor and his See also:art are See also:Vie d'Edme Bouchardon, by le See also:comte de See also:Caylus (Paris, 1762) ; See also:Notice sur Edme Bouchardon, sculpteur, by E . Jolibois (See also:Versailles, 1837) ; Notice historique sur Edme Bouchardon, by J . Carnandet (Paris, 1855) ; and French Architects and Sculptors of the 28th See also:Century, by See also:Lady See also:Dilke (See also:London, 1900) .

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