Online Encyclopedia

Search over 40,000 articles from the original, classic Encyclopedia Britannica, 11th Edition.

BOUCHARDON, EDME (1698-1762)

Online Encyclopedia

Originally appearing in Volume V04, Page 311 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.

» Make a correction to this article.
» Add information or comments to this article.

Encyclopedia Home :: BOS-BRI

Spread the word:

del.icio.us it!

See also:

BOUCHARDON, EDME (1698-1762)

BOUCHARDON, EDME (1698-1762) , See also:

French sculptor, was esteemed in his See also:

day the greatest sculptor of his See also:

time. See also:

BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

Born at Chaumont, he became the See also:

PUPIL (Lat. pupillus, orphan, minor, dim. of pupus, boy, allied to puer, from root pm- or peu-, to beget, cf. "pupa," Lat. for " doll," the name given to the stage intervening between the larval and imaginal stages in certain insects)

pupil of See also:

Guillaume See also:

COUSTOU

Coustou and gained the prix de See also:

Rome in 1722. Resisting the tendency of the day he was classic in his See also:

TASTE (from Lat. taxare, to touch sharply; tangere, to touch)

taste, pure and chaste, always correct, charming and distinguished, a See also:

GREAT

great stickler for all the finish that See also:

sand-See also:

paper could give. During the ten years he remained at Rome, Bouchardon made a striking bust of See also:

Pope See also:

Benedict XIII. (1730). In 1746 he produced his first acclaimed See also:

MASTER (Lat. magister, related to tnagis, more, as the corresponding minister is to minus, less; the English form is due partly to the O. Eng. maegister, and partly to O. Fr. maistre, mod. maitre; cf. Du. meester, Ger. Meister, Ital. maestro)

master-piece, " See also:

CUPID (Cupido, " desire ")

Cupid fashioning a See also:

BOW (pronounced " bo ")

Bow out of the See also:

CLUB (connected with " clump ")

Club of See also:

Hercules," perfect in its See also:

grace, but See also:

COLD (in O. Eng. cald and ceald, a word coming ultimately from a root cognate with the Lat. gelu, gelidus, and common in the Teutonic languages, which usually have two distinct forms for the substantive and the adjective, cf. Ger. Kolte, kalt, Dutch koude

cold in the purity of its classic See also:

DESIGN (Fr. desiin, drawing; Lat. designare, to mark out)

design. His two other leading chefs-d'oeuvre are the See also:

FOUNTAIN (Late Lat. fontana, from ions, a spring)

fountain in the See also:

RUE (Fr. rue, Lat. ruta, from Gr. pur)

rue de Grenelle, See also:

Paris, the first portions of which had been finished and exhibited in 1740, and the equestrian statue of See also:

Louis XV., a See also:

COMMISSION (from Lat. commissio, committere)

commission from the See also:

CITY (through Fr. cite, from Lat. civitas)

city of Paris. This superb See also:

WORK

work, which, when the See also:

MODEL (0. Fr. modelle, mod. modele; It. modello, pattern, mould; from Lat. modus, measure, standard)

model was produced, was declared the finest work of its' See also:

KIND (O. E. ge-cynde, from the same root as is seen in " kin," supra)

kind ever produced in See also:

France, Bouchardon did not live to finish, but See also:

LEFT

left its completion to Pigalie. It was destroyed during the Revolution. Among the See also:

CHIEF (from Fr. chef, head, Lat. caput)

chief books on the sculptor and his See also:

ART

art are See also:

VIE

Vie d'Edme Bouchardon, by le See also:

COMTE, AUGUSTE [ISIDORE AUGUSTE MARIE FRANCOIS XAVIER] (1798-1857)

comte de See also:

CAYLUS,

Caylus (Paris, 1762) ; See also:

NOTICE

Notice sur Edme Bouchardon, sculpteur, by E. Jolibois (See also:

VERSAILLES

Versailles, 1837) ; Notice historique sur Edme Bouchardon, by J. Carnandet (Paris, 1855) ; and French Architects and Sculptors of the 28th See also:

CENTURY (from Lat. centuria, a division of a hundred men)

Century, by See also:

LADY (0. Eng. hlaefdige, Mid. Eng. ldfdi, lavedi; the first part of the word is hldf, loaf, bread, as in the corresponding hldford, lord; the second part is usually taken to be from the root dig-, to knead, seen also in " dough "; the sense development fr

Lady See also:

DILKE, SIR CHARLES WENTWORTH

Dilke (See also:

LONDON

London, 1900).

End of Article: BOUCHARDON, EDME (1698-1762)

Additional information and Comments

There are no comments yet for this article.

» Add information or comments to this article.

Please link directly to this article:
Highlight the code below, right click, and select "copy." Then paste it into your website, email, or other HTML.

Site content, images, and layout Copyright © 2006 - Net Industries, worldwide.
Do not copy, download, transfer, or otherwise replicate the site content in whole or in part.

Links to articles and home page are always encouraged.

[back]
BOTZEN, or BOZEN (Ital. Bolzano)

[next]
BOUCHER DE CREVECEUR DE PERTHES, JACQUES (1788-1868...