Louis Delaporte
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Louis Delaporte was a French explorer and artist, whose collection and documentation of Khmer art formed the nucleus of exhibitions in Paris, originally at the 1878 Paris Exposition and later at the Palais du Trocadéro, where he became chief curator of the Musée Indochinois.
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Louis Delaporte
1866 photograph of Angkor Wat, as Delaporte would have first seen it
Delaporte's engraving of Angkor Wat, published in 1880![Print from a drawing by Delaporte of the temple Pha That Luang[3]](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b8/Voyage_d%27exploration_en_Indo-Chine_-_effectue_pendant_les_annees_1866_1867_et_1868_-_v_1_154_b.jpg/1280px-Voyage_d%27exploration_en_Indo-Chine_-_effectue_pendant_les_annees_1866_1867_et_1868_-_v_1_154_b.jpg)
Print from a drawing by Delaporte of the temple Pha That Luang[3]
Reconstructed Pha That Luang
Khmer sculpture on display at l'Exposition Universelle de 1878, an engraving by Louis DelaporteAwards 1
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Louis Delaporte was a French explorer and artist, whose collection and documentation of Khmer art formed the nucleus of exhibitions in Paris, originally at the 1878 Paris Exposition and later at the Palais du Trocadéro, where he became chief curator of the Musée Indochinois. In 1927, after his death, his collection was moved to the Guimet Museum.
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