Dominique Vivant, Baron Denon was a French artist, writer, diplomat, author, and archaeologist. Denon was a diplomat for France under Louis XV and Louis XVI.
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Vivant Denon with Jean Pesne's engraved Oeuvres de Nicolas Poussin, portrait by Robert Lefèvre (Musée National du Château de Versailles)
Engraving by Denon of a Republican costume designed by Jacques-Louis David
Commemorative bust by Joseph Charles Marin, shown at the Salon of 1827 (Louvre)
Plate showing statues of Amenhotep III at Luxor, Egypt. Commissioned by Napoleon as a present to Joséphine but she rejected it. French, Victoria and Albert Museum, London
Pavillon Denon at the Louvre
The grave of Vivant Denon, Pere Lachaise Cemetery in ParisAwards 1
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Dominique Vivant, Baron Denon was a French artist, writer, diplomat, author, and archaeologist. Denon was a diplomat for France under Louis XV and Louis XVI. He was appointed as the first director of the Louvre museum by Napoleon after the Egyptian campaign of 1798-1801, and is commemorated in the Denon Wing of the Louvre museum and in the Dominique-Vivant Denon Research Center. His two-volume Voyage dans la basse et la haute Egypte, 1802, was foundational for modern Egyptology.
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