Bouchardon Midwifery Author of Distracted by Success

Author of Distracted by Success

In just a short decade

confronted grave challenges to his concept of duty

There is the teenage wannabe-DJ eager to play his first gig even as his family disastrously falls apart—who reappears many years later as an unhappy middle-aged man drunk-calling his ex-wife

Bouchardon Midwifery Author of Distracted by SuccessOne of the most imaginative and fascinating artists of eighteenth century France, Edme Bouchardon (16981762) was instrumental in the transition from Rococo to Neoclassicism and in the artistic rediscovery of classical antiquity. Much celebrated in his time, Bouchardon created some of the most iconic images of the age of Louis XV. His oeuvre demonstrates a remarkable variety of themes (from copies after the antique to subjects of history and mythology,