Background
Edme Bouchardon was born on May 29, 1698 at Chaumont, Haute-Marne, France; the son of Jean-Baptiste Bouchardon. Bouchardon's brother, Jacques-Philippe Bouchardon, was also a sculptor, who became first sculptor to the king of Sweden.
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Edme Bouchardon was born on May 29, 1698 at Chaumont, Haute-Marne, France; the son of Jean-Baptiste Bouchardon. Bouchardon's brother, Jacques-Philippe Bouchardon, was also a sculptor, who became first sculptor to the king of Sweden.
Bouchardon became the pupil of Guillaume Coustou.
Resisting the tendency of the day he was classic in his taste, pure and chaste, always correct, charming and distinguished, a great stickler for all the finish that sand-paper could give. During the ten years he remained at Rome, Bouchardon made a striking bust of Pope Benedict (1730). In 1746 he produced his first acclaimed masterpiece, "Cupid fashioning a Bow out of the Club of Hercules, " perfect in it's grace, but cold in the purity of its classic design. His two other leading chefs-d'oeuvre are the fountain in the rue de Grenelle, Paris, the first portions of which had been finished and exhibited in 1740, and the equestrian statue of Louis XV, a commission from the city of Paris. This superb work, which, when the model was produced, was declared the finest work of its' kind ever produced in France, Bouchardon did not live to finish, but left its completion to Pigalie. It was destroyed during the Revolution. Among the chief books on the sculptor and his art are Vie d'Edme Bouchardon, by le comte de Caylus (Paris, 1762); Notice sur Edme Bouchardon, sculpteur, by E. Jolibois (Versailles, 1837); Notice historique sur Edme Bouchardon, by J. Carnandet (Paris, 1855); and French Architects and Sculptors of the 18th Century, by Lady Dilke (London, 1900).
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In 1745 he received membership in the Academie Royale.
