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Lot 84
CHARLES-NICOLAS COCHIN (PARIS 1715-1790)
Homme en buste tourné de trois-quart vers la droite: portrait présumé de Monsieur Sedaine
Closed27 March 2019
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EUR 1,625
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Michel Jean Sedaine (1719-1797), avant tout homme de lettres, devient secrétaire de l’Académie d’Architecture en partie grâce à ses relations avec le Marquis de Marigny, il travaille avec Cochin qui illustrera certains de ses écrits (C. Michel, Charles-Nicolas Cochin et l’art des lumières, Paris, 1993, pp. 471, 481-2).
Michel-Jean Sedaine (1715-1790), above all a literary man, became secretary of the Académie d’architecture due in part to his connection to the Marquis de Marigny, Madame de Pompadour’s brother and director general of the King’s Buildings. He worked with Cochin who illustrated some of his writings (C. Michel, Charles-Nicolas Cochin et l’art des Lumières, Paris, 1993, pp. 471, 481-482).
Michel-Jean Sedaine (1715-1790), above all a literary man, became secretary of the Académie d’architecture due in part to his connection to the Marquis de Marigny, Madame de Pompadour’s brother and director general of the King’s Buildings. He worked with Cochin who illustrated some of his writings (C. Michel, Charles-Nicolas Cochin et l’art des Lumières, Paris, 1993, pp. 471, 481-482).