Codice albumGBB-F-008411

Codice inventarioGBB-F-008411-0000

1788 ca, FRANCE: The French artist, writer, diplomat, author and archaeologist DOMINIQUE VIVANT Baron DENON (1747-1825). Engraved selfportrait, 1788 ca. He was appointed as the first Director of the Louvre museum by Napoleon I after the Egyptian campaign of 17981801. His two-volume Voyage dans la basse et la haute Egypte ("Journey in Lower and Upper Egypt"), 1802, was the foundation of modern Egyptology

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