Musee du
Louvre, Paris France
Sept. 14,
2016 – December 05, 2016
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 director of the
King’s Buildings summoned him back to France, where he quickly received a
studio and lodgings at the Louvre. Accepted into the Academy in 1735, he thus
became Sculptor to the King.
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.
Contact
details
34-36 quai
du Louvre , 1e - Paris, France 75058
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