Louis Claude Vassé (1717 in Paris – 1772) was a French sculptor. He was the son and grandson of sculptors and a pupil of Edmé Bouchardon. He won the Prix de Rome and later became a member of the Académie royale de peinture et de sculpture.[1] Among his best known works is the tomb of Stanislas Leszczyński at Nancy in the Église Notre-Dame-de-Bon-Secours.

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  Tomb of Stanislas Leszczynski at Église Notre-Dame-de-Bon-Secours, Nancy
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  Marble bust of Madame Victoire, by Louis-Claude Vasse, 1763, Paris. France. National Museum of Scotland, Edinburgh

References

External links

• Europe in the age of enlightenment and revolution, a catalog from The Metropolitan Museum of Art Libraries (fully available online as PDF), which contains material on this sculptor (see index)
• Louis-Claude Vassé in American public collections, on the French Sculpture Census website

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