Pierre-Hubert LARCHEVÊQUE (1721-1778), sculptor, he was firs - Lot 464

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Pierre-Hubert LARCHEVÊQUE (1721-1778), sculptor, he was firs - Lot 464
Pierre-Hubert LARCHEVÊQUE (1721-1778), sculptor, he was first sculptor of the king of Sweden, and director of the academy of sculpture of Stockholm. Autograph letter signed. 1 p. in-4. [July 1776]. Very rare letter on the sculpture of the "two Gustavs" [Gustav II Adolphus and Gustav Vasa]. "The approach of my departure makes me apprehensive not to find a favorable moment to receive your last orders. I will nevertheless be exact to those you have kindly honored me with for the busts of the two Gustaves. I am only embarrassed to know if you have determined the proportion or if nature should serve as a rule [] ". On the back, a draft of his correspondent's reply: "I leave it entirely up to you, Sir, as to the proportions that should be given to the busts that I have asked you to execute according to the statues of the two Gustavs: and I leave it to you to judge, according to your own ideas, whether you should base your design on nature or on another basis that is more similar to the objects; in any case, you feel that the noble proportions are to be preferred []".
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