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Edme Bouchardon's Vade Mecum

013. Volume I, folio 9 recto
014. Volume I, folio 10 recto
015. Volume I, folio 11 recto
016. Volume I, folio 12 recto
017. Volume I, folio 13 recto
018. Volume I, folio 14 recto
019. Volume I, folio 15 recto
020. Volume I, folio 16 recto
021. Volume I, folio 17 recto
022. Volume I, folio 18 recto
023. Volume I, folio 19 recto
024. Volume I, folio 20 recto

Edme Bouchardon (Chaumont-en-Bassigny 1698–1762 Paris) was one of the greatest sculptors during the reign of Louis XV (r. 1715–74) and one of the most prolific and talented draftsmen of eighteenth-century France. The Morgan’s two-volume Vade Mecum (“Come with me”) sketchbook contains no fewer than 111 drawings, made mostly in red chalk, as well as a partial third volume of drawings in black chalk by another hand. The drawings, made by Bouchardon in Rome, are mostly copies of sculptural and architectural elements from around the city, while some are creative inventions and preparatory commissions that the artist tried to secure.