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Condition: Good. ngraving. 27.5 x 36cm. Likely Plate 129 from "Voyage dans la basse et la haute E?gypte pendant les campagnes du général Bonaparte." Soiled in the margins. Dominique Vivant, Baron Denon, (born January 4, 1747, Chalon-sur-Saône, France?died April 27, 1825, Paris), French artist, archaeologist, and museum official who played an important role in the development of the Louvre collection.Denon studied law in Paris but turned to the theatre, writing a successful comedy at age 23. He drew and painted and was commissioned by Louis XV to arrange a cabinet of carved gems. Between 1772 and 1787 he carried out diplomatic missions to Russia, Naples, and Switzerland; in Naples he etched portraits and collected works of art. In 1787 he became a member of the Académie Royale de Peinture.During the French Revolution he returned to Paris, where he was protected by his friend the painter Jacques-Louis David. In 1798 he accompanied Napoleon Bonaparte on the latter's expedition to Egypt and there made numerous sketches of the ancient monuments, sometimes under the very fire of the enemy. …