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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e Saint-Michel, with the permission to him, who wasactually dying, to wear it avant sa reception. Coustou knew thathis grave was open when he received this order from the hands of Monsieur le Comte dAngiviller, Directeur et Intendant generaldes Batiments du Roy, in the presence of M. le Comte de Falken-stein, who was, indeed, no less a personage than Joseph IL,Emperor of Germany, the brother of Marie Antoinette. Hisdeath-bed was next visited by Lemoyne and Gabriel on the partof the Company. He lingered on through May and June, but on26th July, Renou, the secretary, notified the Academy of his death,which had taken place on the 13th of the same month.3 A 1 For these documents see N. A. de lA. fr., 1878, pp. 339-342. Communiquespar M. J. J. Guiffrey. 2 A. de lA. fr. Documents communiques par M. Laperlier, t. vi., p. 27. 3 Proces verbal de la seance du 26 Juillet, 1777. Le Secretaire a notifle la mort 62 Tombeau du Dauphin. By Guillaume Coustou le fils.(Choir of the Cathedral of Sens.)
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peine, he says, M. Coustou a-t-il eu fini le tombeau de feu TheMgr. le Dauphin et de Mme. la Dauphine, le morceau le plus coyzeloxbeau et le plus considerable qui soit sorti de ses mains ; a peine en Thea-t-il recu la recompense honorable par le cordon de Saint-Michel, *hree^ • i T / i i / i i in u iu ■ mi COUStOU. qui luy a ete donne, par ordre du Roy, par M. d Angiviller, enpresence de M. le Comte de Falkenstein, quil a termine sacarriere dans la soixante et unieme annee de son age. II a assezvecu pour sa gloire et trop peu pour en jouir aux yeux delAcademie, de sa famille et de ses amis qui le regretteront tou-jours. There is no doubt, from this statement by Renou, that the Tomb of the Dauphin had been wholly completed by Coustoule fils before his death. Further confirmation of this fact, if anywere required, is to be found in the correspondence of Pierre withdAngiviller, concerning the arrangements for the Salon. Fromthe letter of the 12th August—written by the Director in a

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