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(1) Edme Bouchardon
(b Chaumont-en-Bassigny, Haute-Marne, 29 May 1698; d Paris, 27 July 1762). Sculptor and draughtsman. He was a pupil of his father, and his earliest work, the low relief of the Martyrdom of St Stephen (1719–20) for the tympanum above the main portal of the church of St Stephen at Dijon (now Dijon, St Benigne; in situ), was executed in collaboration with Jean-Baptiste. His training must have been solid, for his technique was so competent that only a year after arriving in Paris in 1721, ostensibly to study with Guillaume Coustou the elder, he won the Prix de Rome for sculpture, with Gideon Choosing his Soldiers by Watching them Drinking (untraced). He travelled to Rome in 1723 with the winner of that year’s Prix de Rome, Lambert-Sigismond Adam, and the two became rivals.
Part of the Bouchardon family
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