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De Caso is best known for his fundamental contributions to the history of European sculpture in most of its aspects from the end of the 18th century to the beginning of the 20th. His work has also involved French neo-classical painting (Jacques-Louis David in particular) and thought and theory concerning art in France 1800-1900.
He assisted Baron Philippe de Rothschild and Baroness de Rothschild during the early stages of their acquisition and study of art objects prior to Baron Philippe's creation of the private Wine Art Museum (musée privé du vin dans l’art), 1962, at Château Mouton-Rothschild, Pauillac, France.
He is an authority on the works of David (d'Angers) [2] [3] whose unpublished writings he is editing for publication. With Jean-Luc Marais he has completed a critical edition of Victor Pavie's newly discovered letters to David d'Angers. [4] Together with Patricia Sanders he conducted a re-appraisal of the Rodin collection at the California Palace of the Legion of Honor (San Francisco) [5] and with Sanders produced a newly translated and annotated edition of Rodin's book Art. [6]
He was instrumental in the re-discovery of James Pradier [7] (Musée d'Art et d'Histoire, Genève - Musée du Luxembourg, Paris) and discovered the drawings and writings of the previously little-known sculptor Théophile Bra [8] [9] (the Menil Collection, Houston - Musée de la Vie Romantique, Paris). With Sylvain Bellenger, he organized for the Musée Historial de la Vendée and the Musée d'Orsay in Paris the first retrospective exhibition dedicated to Félicie de Fauveau, [10] the sculptor Stendhal discovered and praised.
With Petra ten-Doesschate-Chu, he served as editor of the Princeton University Press series in 19th Century Art, Culture & Society.
The exhibit "Metamorphoses in Nineteenth Century Sculpture" which he organized with Jane Wasserman [11] at the Fogg Museum, Harvard, pioneered the recognition and study of serial sculpture—industrial production of sculptural works in various scales, materials, etc.-- and all it implied in terms of art, society and economics.
He has donated his library and his extensive visual archives to the School of Art and Art History, University of Iowa (https://ovm.art.uiowa.edu/decaso/).
De Caso has regularly indulged his interests in other fields as well. These range from translating the writing of Tatjana Gsovsky on ballet in post-World War II Germany to collaborating with James Norwood Pratt on The Wine Bibber's Bible, the first book-length appraisal of California's wines [12]
James Pradier was a Genevan-born French sculptor best known for his work in the neoclassical style.
The Musée Rodin of Paris, France, is an art museum that was opened in 1919, primarily dedicated to the works of the French sculptor Auguste Rodin. It has two sites: the Hôtel Biron and surrounding grounds in central Paris, as well as just outside Paris at Rodin's old home, the Villa des Brillants at Meudon, Hauts-de-Seine. The collection includes 6,600 sculptures, 8,000 drawings, 8,000 old photographs and 7,000 objets d'art. The museum receives 700,000 visitors annually.
Pierre-Jean David was a French sculptor, medalist and active freemason. He adopted the name David d'Angers, following his entry into the studio of the painter Jacques-Louis David in 1809 as a way of both expressing his patrimony and distinguishing himself from the master painter.
Antoine-Augustin Préault was a French sculptor of the "Romantic" movement. Born in the Marais district of Paris, he was better known during his lifetime as Auguste Préault.
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Louis Étienne Watelet was a French landscape painter and art teacher.
Louis-Antoine Prat is a French art historian and art collector, specialized in drawings.
Albert Pontremoli, also known as M. Albert Pontremoli,, was a French art collector, lawyer and magistrate of Italian origin.
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