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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hurry to return to France, and dAntin had tourge Wleughels to take measures which might bring about hisdeparture. Ne procurez pas, he writes on 20th April, 1732, douvrage ni a Bouchardon, ni a Adam, et sans affectation per-suadez-les de revenir le plus tot quils pourront, ce nest pas pourenrichir les paiis etrangers que le Roi fait tant de depenses a sonAcademie.4 To these injunctions Bouchardon was forced tosubmit; although, as Diderot tells us, on le prefera pour lexecu-tion du tombeau de Clement XI. Sans des circonstances par- 1 P. V. 29 August, 1722, 30 April, 1723. See also A. de lA. fr., t. v., p. 287,and C. L., 1 March, 1763, and Pig. de la F., Descrip. Versailles, t. ii., p. 310. 51 Nicolas-Sebastian Adam, 1705-1778. R. 1762, on Prometheus (No. 482,Sculptures T. M., Musee du Louvre), the model for which he had shown in 1738. 3 Correspondance de lAcad. de France a Rome j Lettres de Wleughels, ed.by Lecoy de la Marche, G. B. A., 1869, p. 182. 4 Ibid., G. B. A., 1869, p. 272. 68
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ticulieres, lapotheose de ce pontife, qui a cause tant de maux a la EdmeFrance eut ete faite par un Francais. 1 don! When Bouchardon returned to Paris,2 after ten years spent inRome—studying, in especial, they say, la morbidezza of Algardiand Francois Flamant—the features of his style were fixed. Hisstrong character, narrow intelligence, and defective temperament,rendered him a dogged partisan of those theories of classical cor-rection which he had happened to adopt. He had early establishedhis claim—as the letter of Pierrre Mignard attests—to be con-sidered scavant, the word then coming into fashion, and he was agree by the Academy toutte dune voix 3 as the new promiseof glory for the French School. The Duke dAntin hastened tofind him a lodging in the Louvre, dans lequel il lui fit batir unlogement commode. 4 He even visited him there, and having, asCochin tells us, la mauvaise habitude de tutoyer, said toBouchardon, Te voila bien loge, expecting, in reply, the grate-ful ackn

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