Louis-Claude Vassé

Portrait of the sculptor Louis-Claude Vassé by Étienne Aubry.

Louis Claude Vassé (1717 in Paris 1772) was a French sculptor. He was the son and grandson of sculptors and a pupil of Edmé Bouchardon. He won the Prix de Rome and later became a member of the Académie royale de peinture et de sculpture.[1] Among his best known works is the tomb of Stanislas Leszczyński at Nancy in the Église Notre-Dame-de-Bon-Secours.

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  1. Larousse entry. "Fils et petit-fils de sculpteurs, élève de Bouchardon, il fut Prix de Rome et académicien. Il est l'auteur du tombeau de Stanislas Leszczyński à Nancy (église N.-D.-de-Bon-Secours). "

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