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The Learned Draftsman: Edme Bouchardon iris from its founding in 1648douard Kopp The celebrated French artist Edme Bouchardon (16981762) is primarily known as a sculptor today, but his contemporaries widely lauded him as a draftsman as well. Talented, highly innovative, and deeply invested in the medium, Bouchardon made an important contribution to the European art and culture of his time, and in particular to the history of drawing. Around two thousand of his drawings survivemost of which bear no relation, conceptual