ROCHET (Charles), Painter and Sculptor. Brother and pupil of - Lot 462

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ROCHET (Charles), Painter and Sculptor. Brother and pupil of - Lot 462
ROCHET (Charles), Painter and Sculptor. Brother and pupil of Louis ROCHET. He appeared at the Salon from 1844. Professor at the BEAUX-ARTS (Paris 1815-1900) - 3 Letters (2 L.A.S., 1 L.S) - Letter A.S. Charles ROCHET, Painter and Statuary, Professor in charge of the courses of Anthropology and elementary Zoology at the National School of the BEAUX-ARTS. - PARIS 16 Sept 1872 - 1p in-8° - "Sir; For the Publication that I am undertaking, at this moment of my Course applied to the Fine Arts, I would need to make some drawings of articulated animals in the Gallery of Zoology of the Museum. He asks for permission to work in the Galleries + Letter A.S. from ATHIS-MONS (Seine et Oise. Essonne) Sept. 29, 1895 - 2pp 1/2 in-8° - "Dear Sir, in the last session of the Academy of Sciences, you spoke out against the TRANSFORMERS, and you cited a challenge that for 35 years you have been addressing to them that you could not cite any case of obvious MUTATION. In a completely different order of work I am pursuing the same goal, and on this subject I have the honor of sending you a Memoir I read at the Society of Anthropology on THE ANTHROPOLOGY OF FINE ARTS. You will see there that in spite of all the kindnesses that I owed to colleagues who do not think like me, I fight against this pernicious theory and harmful to the real studies... Dear Mr. BLANCHARD (From the Institute), I regret that age and an infirmity contracted in my great works of Sculpture deprive me of going to Paris, ..." + Letter signed to Emile BLANCHARD Member of the Institute. as a Founding Member of two Associations "Of Artists Painters, Sculptors, Architects, Engravers and Drawers" "Of Inventors and Industrial Artists." Quai Valmy 119 - He has the project of constituting a vast Association between all the Naturalists, disseminated in the whole world."
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