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Acquisition: A Bronze by Jean-Antoine Houdon Goes to the Louvre

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A statuette of L'Ecorché (The Skinned One) will soon join the Diana the Huntress and busts of Rousseau and Voltaire, the Parisian museum announced on Twitter. This is the first evidence of the collaboration between the great 18th-century sculptor and the no less famous bronzer Philippe Thomire.