Musée Bouchard
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The Musée Bouchard was a studio museum dedicated to sculptor Henri Bouchard
Henri Bouchard
Henri Bouchard , was a French sculptor.The son of a carpenter, Bouchard was born in Dijon. He was educated at the Académie Julian and in the studio of Louis-Ernest Barrias before entering the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris. He took the Prix de Rome in 1901...

 (1875-1960), and located at 25, rue de l'Yvette, Paris
Paris
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, France
France
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The museum was established in Bouchard's studio after his death in 1960, and open to the public 1962-2007. Its collections, including a large figure of Apollo
Apollo
Apollo is one of the most important and complex of the Olympian deities in Greek and Roman mythology...

 displayed at the Palais de Chaillot, plus over a thousand other works such as bronze casts, stone sculptures, and original plaster works, have subsequently been transferred to the Musée de La Piscine in Roubaix
Roubaix
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. According to the museum's web site, a reconstruction of the studio will open in 2010.
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