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Pierre Crozat (1665–1740) was a French financier, art patron and collector at the center of a broad circle of cognoscenti; he was the brother of Antoine Crozat who, for a 15 year period, had sole authority over the African slave trade. The brothers Crozat were born in Toulouse, France, the sons of a
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See moreCharles de La Fosse, who lived in Crozat's Parisian hôtel as his guest and died there in 1716, painted the vaulted ceiling there with La Naissance de Minerve (The Birth of Minerva) and delivered several paintings for Montmorency. As
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See moreCrozat began gradually to acquire a notable collection of paintings, old master drawings, and objets d'art, sometimes referred to as the "Cabinet Crozat". His collection of old master drawings was already one of the most important in France at the beginning of
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See more• Barbara Scott, Pierre Crozat. A Maecenas of the Régence, in: Apollo 97:1973, pp. 11–20.
• Margret Stuffmann, Les tableaux de la collection de Pierre Crozat, in: Gazette des Beaux Arts 110:1968, pp. 11–144....
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