Vivant Denon, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Vivant Denon

French artist, writer, diplomat, author, and archaeologist

Date of Birth: 04-Jan-1747

Place of Birth: Chalon-sur-Saône, Bourgogne-Franche-Comté, France

Date of Death: 27-Apr-1825

Profession: politician, diplomat, painter, egyptologist, art historian, travel writer, archaeologist, etcher, drawer

Nationality: France

Zodiac Sign: Capricorn

Dominique Vivant, Baron Denon (4 January 1747 – 27 April 1825) was a French artist, writer, diplomat, author, and archaeologist.
He was appointed as the first Director of the Louvre museum by Napoleon after the Egyptian campaign of 1798–1801, and is commemorated in the Denon Wing of the modern museum and in the Dominique-Vivant Denon Research Center.
His two-volume Voyage dans la basse et la haute Egypte ("Journey in Lower and Upper Egypt"), 1802, was the foundation of modern Egyptology.



Alternative names	legal name: Robert Jacques François Faust Lefèvre
Description	French painter
Date of birth/death	24 September 1755	3 October 1830
Location of birth/death	Bayeux	Paris
Work location	Paris
Authority control	: Q559676 VIAF: 76580341 ISNI: 0000 0000 6659 1078 ULAN: 500032881 LCCN: nr2001033456 WGA: LEFÈVRE, Robert WorldCat