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Title: French architects and sculptors of the XVIIIth century
Year: 1900 (1900s)
Authors: Dilke, Emilia Francis Strong, Lady, 1840-1904
Subjects: Architects Sculpture, French Sculptors
Publisher: London, G. Bell and sons
Contributing Library: Getty Research Institute
Digitizing Sponsor: Getty Research Institute

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Fetes Lupercales, all engravedafter Bouchardons drawings. 3 DAntin had, in 1733, ordered a Louis XIV. for the choir of Notre-Dame, ofBouchardon, who disliking the subject got it changed to lAmour en Hercule. Seeletter of J. J. CafHeri, Guiffrey, Les Caffieri, p. 257. The modele en terre forthe Louis XIV., due in 1733, was not paid till 1762. Courajod, Journal Duvaux,t. i., p. ccii. 4 A. de lA. fr., t. i., p. 162, et seq. 5 The life-size marble version, in the collection of M. Boni de Castellane, showsLove in the possession of all the spoils of Hercules. This work, bought in Paris, issaid to have been sold by a Russian qui ne se soucie pas quon le nomme. Elle aete faite pour un membre de la famille Royale de France et vendue au moment dela Revolution, says the present owner, but I doubt this, and think it is most likelythe copy made in marble for the fermier-genera/, Bouret. DArg., Voy. Paris, p. 180. 74 LAmour se faisant un arc de la massue dHercule. By Bouchardon. (Musee de Louvre.)
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cambrant son arc1—immediately before beginning the series of Edmestudies which preceded the Amour en Hercule. He began these, ^J1011314we are told, by a number of drawings from life, followed by variousmodels, the result being the second terra-cotta model, 2 feet high,and another of 5^ feet. From these various casts were taken, andwe are told that pour plus de perfection, on a aussi moule des corpsvivans, des bras, des jambes et autres parties, tous travaux indis-pensables a quiconque veut imiter la nature et ne se point egarerdans lexecution en marbre. Nearly two years having been spentin these operations, Bouchardon began to work, on the marble inJuly, 1747, and devoted himself to it up to the 12th May, 1750,when the statue was finished.2 The pointing was carried out byan eleve sculpteur,—probably Edme Dumont3 or Vasse—and a garcon datelier, but they were always under the eye of thesculptor, who, in his love for le fini, took into his own handssuch matters as sand-papering and

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