Bouchardon - Royal Artist of the Enlightenment

Edouard Kopp, Guilhem Scherf, Anne-Lise Desmas , Juliette Trey

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Getty Publications
10 January 2017

History of art & design styles: c 1600 to c 1800; Sculpture; Individual artists, art monographs

One of the most imaginative and fascinating artists of eighteenth-century France, Edme Bouchardon (1698–1762) was instrumental in the transition from Rococo to Neoclassicism and in the artistic rediscovery of classical antiquity. Much celebrated in his time, Bouchardon created some of the most iconic images of the age of Louis XV. His oeuvre demonstrates a remarkable variety of themes (from copies after the antique to subjects of history and mythology, portraiture, anatomical studies, ornament, fountains and tombs), media (drawings, sculptures, medals, prints), and techniques (chalk, plaster, wax, terracotta, marble, bronze).

With five essays by experts on Bouchardon’s sculpture and graphic arts, more than 140 catalogue entries, and a detailed chronology, this book aims to demonstrate the originality of Bouchardon’s art within the cultural and social context of the period, while suggesting the subtle relationship between, as well as the relative autonomy of, the artist’s two careers as a sculptor and a draftsman.

This lavishly illustrated publication represents an unprecedented and thorough survey on this major and unique artist from the Age of Enlightenment, offering indepth scholarship based on unpublished material.

By: Edouard Kopp, Guilhem Scherf, Anne-Lise Desmas, Juliette Trey
Imprint: Getty Publications
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 307mm, Width: 249mm, Spine: 39mm
Weight: 2.824kg
ISBN: 9781606065068
ISBN 10: 1606065068
Pages: 448
Publication Date: 10 January 2017
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Anne-Lise Desmas is curator and head of the Department of Sculpture and Decorative Arts at the J. Paul Getty Museum. Edouard Kopp is the Maida and George Abrams Associate Curator of Drawings at the Harvard Art Museums. Guilhem Scherf is chief curator in the Department of Sculpture at the Louvre. Juliette Trey is curator in the Department of Graphic Arts at the Louvre.

Reviews for Bouchardon - Royal Artist of the Enlightenment

"""With illustrations of excel-lent quality. Bouchardon is well served by this fine catalogue which, with its comprehensive survey of the life and work, should win new admirers for this innovative and most interesting artist.""--Art Newspaper"