Head of Galatea, 1727–30, Edme Bouchardon after Raphael. Musée du Louvre, Département des Arts graphiques, Paris. Image © Adrien Didierjean / RMN-GP

The Learned Draftsman: Edme Bouchardon

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The celebrated French artist Edme Bouchardon (1698–1762) is primarily known as a sculptor today, but, as Edouard Kopp, co-curator of the exhibition Bouchardon: Royal Artist of the Enlightenment explains, he was enthusiastically regarded by his contemporaries as a draftsman as well. Supremely talented, highly innovative, and deeply invested in the medium of drawing, Bouchardon made an important contribution to European art and culture in the Age of Enlightenment.

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