Louis La Caze

Louis La Caze

French physician and art collector (1798-1869)

Louis La Caze was a successful French physician and collector of paintings whose bequest of 583 paintings to the Musée du Louvre was one of the largest the museum has ever received. Among the paintings, the most famous are likely to be Pierrot by Antoine Watteau, or Rembrandt's Bathsheba at Her Bath.

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