The Learned Draftsman: Edme Bouchardon

by Édouard Kopp

The celebrated French artist Edme Bouchardon (1698-1762) is primarily known as a sculptor today, but his contemporaries widely lauded him as a draftsman as well. Talented, highly innovative, and deeply invested in the medium, Bouchardon made an important contribution to the European art and culture of his time, and in particular to the history of drawing. Around two thousand of his drawings survive--most of which bear no relation, conceptual or practical,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1606065041
• ISBN13: 9781606065044
• Release Date: January 2017
• Publisher: J. Paul Getty Museum
• Length: 312 Pages
• Weight: 2.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 9.3" x 10.5"