Full Name: Bénédite, Léonce
Gender: male
Date Born: 1859
Date Died: 1925
Home Country/ies: France
Subject Area(s): sculpture (visual works)
Career(s): curators
Overview
Curator of the Luxembourg Museum and first director of the Musée Rodin.
Selected Bibliography
Catalogue sommaire des oeuvres d’Auguste Rodin et autres oeuvres d’art de la Donation Rodin, expose´s à l’hôtel Biron. Paris: Impr. Beresniak, 1922; Dezarrois, Andre´, ed. The´odore Chasse´riau: sa vie et son oeuvre. 2 vols. Paris: Les E´ditions Braun, 1931; Les Beaux-arts et les arts de´coratifs: Exposition universelle de 1900. Paris: Gazette des beaux-arts, 1900?; L’oeuvre lithographique de Fantin-Latour. Paris: L. Delteil, 1907; L’Art au XIXe siècle, 1800-1900. Paris: Librairie Centrale des Beaux-Arts, 1905, English, Great painters of the XIXth century and their paintings. London: Sir I. Pitman and sons, 1910.
Archives
- Bénédite, Léonce [collated], Institut national d’histoire de l’art. https://www.inha.fr/fr/ressources/publications/publications-numeriques/dictionnaire-critique-des-historiens-de-l-art/benedite-leonce.html.
Contributors: Emily Crockett and Lee Sorensen