1820 ca, FRANCE: The French artist, writer, diplomat, author and archaeologist DOMINIQUE VIVANT Baron DENON (1747-1825). Engraving" The interior of an Egyptian bath-house", by italian G.B. Cecchi after Vivant Denon. 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