Edme Bouchardon

Place: Chaumont-En-Bassigny

Born: 1698

Death: 1762

Biography:

Edmé Bouchardon (29 May 1698 – 27 July 1762) was a French sculptor esteemed and valued as well as a painter and draughtsman. A native of Chaumont-en-Bassigny, Bouchardon was the son of sculptor and architect, Jean-Baptiste Bouchardon. He became the pupil of sculptor Guillaume Coustou and was awarded the Prix de Rome in 1722. Resisting the rococo te...