GUILLAUME BOICHOT

Boichot (30 August 1735 - 9 December 1814) was both a painter and a sculptor but mainly produced sculptures. Today his many extant Neoclassical drawings are admired above all. Although a student of Simon Challe (1719-1765) in Paris, Boichot is regarded primarily as self-taught. An art lover named Barault took Boichot under his wing. The young student admired Michelangelo and Raphael and read Leonardo's treatises and visited a surgeon to study anatomy. But his father advised him to become a sculptor and architect, and to abandon painting. Early on, Boichot did decorative paintings in the private town house of Guichard-Pontheret. At the Academy Boichot attained the rank of agréé in ...