Edouard Kopp

Bio

Edouard is the Maida and George Abrams Associate Curator of Drawings at the Harvard Art Museums, author of The Learned Draftsman: Edme Bouchardon, and co-curator of Bouchardon: Royal Artist of the Enlightenment. Until 2015 he was an assistant curator of drawings at the Getty Museum, in charge of French and later Germanic drawings.

Drawings, J. Paul Getty Museum Assistant Curator

Stories

  1. Pictures of the People: Edme Bouchardon’s Cries of Paris

    Article

    Two images side by side of a man in a long coat and boots, holding a basket with mini windmills. On the left, the image is in red and black drawing, on the right as a black and white etching.

    This unique group of drawings and prints creates a collective portrait of the 18th-century Parisian working class

    Mar 28, 2017

  2. Fragonard’s Les Beignets: How Much Sweeter Can Life Be?

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    Drawing of a group of women making beignets by a fire, while some young children and a dog watch

    The pleasure and enchantment of an 18th-century drawing

    May 14, 2012