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CROZAT, PIERRE (1661–1740)

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Originally appearing in Volume V07, Page 520 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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CROZAT, See also:PIERRE (1661–1740) , See also:French See also:art See also:collector, was See also:born at See also:Toulouse, one of a See also:family who were prominent French financiers and collectors. He became treasurer to the See also:king 'in See also:Paris, and gradually acquired a magnificent collection of pictures and objets d'art. Between 1729 and 1742 a finely illustrated See also:work was published in two volumes, known as the See also:Cabinet Crozat, including the finest pictures in French collections. Most of his own treasures descended to his nephews, See also:Louis See also:Francois (d. 1750), See also:Joseph See also:Antoine (d. 1750), and Louis Antoine (d. 1770), and were augmented by them, being dispersed after their deaths; the collection of Louis Antoine Crozat went to St See also:Petersburg.

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