Louvre Acquires Bust of Architect Hector Lefuel
February 23 2022
Picture: Artcurial
Posted by Adam Busiakiewicz:
The Louvre in Paris has pre-empted (acquired after auction for the French nation) Francisque Duret's (1804-1865) bust of the architect Hector Lefuel at Artcurial's auction in Paris earlier this week. Lefuel had been a winner of the Prix de Rome in 1839 and later worked on completing Napoleon III's reconstruction of the Louvre itself.
