Full Name: Dupont, Jacques
Gender: male
Date Born: 1908
Home Country/ies: France
Subject Area(s): Gothic (Medieval)
Overview
Inspecteur général des monuments historiques; wrote the Gothic art volume with Cesare Gnudi, (1954) for the Great Centuries of Painting series (Skira). He was involved the 1960 Poussin exhibition in France which instituted the long-running debate about the chronology and authenticity of the early works of that artist. The show, launched by Michel Laclotte, and assisted by Germain Bazin, Charles Sterling, René Varin and Jacques Thuillier.
Sources
Sewell, Brian. “The Blunt Truth about Poussin?” Evening Standard (London) February 2, 1995, p. 30;