Anne Claude de Caylus
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Anne Claude de Tubières-Grimoard de Pestels de Lévis, comte de Caylus, marquis d'Esternay, baron de Bransac, was a French antiquarian, proto-archaeologist and man of letters.
Count de Caylus by Alexander Roslin, National Museum, Warsaw
Caylus in Receuil d'Antiquités, Book 7, 1767
Sphinx of Pharaoh Apries of the Twenty-sixth Dynasty of Egypt, from the collection of Count Caylus, now at the Louvre.
The "Caylus vase" in the name of Xerxes I, was key in the decipherment of cuneiform. Now in the Cabinet des Médailles.
Edmé Bouchardon
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Edmé Bouchardon was a French sculptor best known for his neoclassical statues in the gardens of the Palace of Versailles, his medals, his equestrian statue of Louis XV for the Place de la Concorde; an
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…Crozat and the Cabinet du Roi (the collection of the King); he also made many etchings from drawings by his friend Antoine Watteau and the sculptor Edmé Bouchardon. He caused engravings to be made, at his own expense, of Bartoli's copies from ancient pictures. His publications Nouveaux sujets de peinture et de…
Portrait by François-Hubert Drouais in 1758
Bust of Pope Clement XII, plaster and terra-cotta (after 1730) California Palace of the Legion of Honor
Copy of the Barberini Faun in Rome made by Bouchardon, Louvre (1732)
Edme Bouchardon, Cupid, 1744, National Gallery of Art