Louis La Caze

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title: Louis La Caze
text: 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. Born to a family of social standing, he retreated to simple rooms in the Latin Quarter of Paris. A dedicated student devoted to the theory of medicine, he demonstrated during the cholera epidemic of
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description: French physician and collector of paintings
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