The learned draftsman: Edme Bouchardon

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"A narrative survey of the draftsmanship of the eighteenth-century French artist Edme Bouchardon"--Provided by publisher.

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Bouchardon the draftsman -- Roman studies after ancient and modern art, 1723-32 -- Drawing between high and low: les cris de Paris, about 1737 -- Drawing exposed: Bouchardon and the Salon, 1737-46 -- Drawing medals and jetons for the academy of inscriptions, 1737-62 -- "The choice of nature": Bouchardon's drawings for the equestrian monument to Louis XV, 1748-62.