Identifier: frencharchitects00dilk (find matches)
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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layed in regard to the payment claimed by Pigalle for thecompletion of Bouchardons Louis XV., he also insists on thesums paid to Bouchardon as furnishing a fitting precedent for hisown case. He does not seem, however, to have found many sym- 1 CEuv. de Falconet, t. iii., p. 395. * Ibid., p. 370. 3 The head and tail of the serpent could, he asserted, only be modelled after thestatue was in position on the rock. Ibid., p. 369. 4 Ibid, p. 368. 5 Ibid., p. 378. The delay in this payment had caused trouble with one of theassistants. See Lettre de M. Berenger a M. Dentan, t. iii. 6 Ibid., t. i. p. 20 j t. iii., p. 378. 7 1717-1776. R. 29 May, 1751. A pedestrian statue of Louis XV. given byhim to his native town of Valenciennes is figured in Monuments eleves a la gloirede Louis XV. by Patte. His diploma work Faune portant un chevreau was pre-sented by the Academy to Christian VII. when he visited Paris. P. V., 26 Novr.,1768. See also Dussieux, Les artistes francais a letranger, p. 350. I I 2
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Diderot. By Anna Collot.(Collection of M. Jacques Douce t.~) pathizers and his encouragement of Vasses intrigues 1 was, probably, Theremembered against him. Lemoyne On his return to Paris in 1778, his brothers of the Academy andseem to have found Falconnet less obnoxious, perhaps because some- p*1^™6what humbled by his Russian experiences. He demanded la nettveterance which excluded from the occupation of official posts,but he was promptly nominated to a vacant office of adjoint arecteur. Four or five years later—on the very day when he wasagain named professeur adjoint —came the news that Falconnethad had a stroke of paralysis,2 and the same cause forced him toabandon his favourite project of a journey to Italy. For eightlong years he kept his room, tyrannically insisting on the closeattentions of his daughter-in-law, Anna Collot, who had been oneof his few pupils— on pouvait etre sur quil aurait un besoinpressant des services de sa bru, des quil soupconnerait quellerecevait

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