# Antoine Louis Le Fèvre de Caumartin [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [HOUDON, Jean-Antoine]() - Date: 1751-1800 - Technique: Marble ## Commentary Antoine Louis Le Fèvre de Caumartin, marquis de Saint-Ange \(1725-1803\) was the impecunious heir to an old family of magistrates and royal administrators. He had a distinguished career under the ancien régime. He was intendant at Metz for two years and in Flanders and Artois for twenty-two years. In 1778, Louis XVI had him elected the mayor of Paris, which he retained until 1784. While in office, Caumartin sponsored an urbanization project that led to the creation of a housing district between the old church of Madeleine and the Chassée d'Antin, where today a street bears his name. A <a onclick="return OpenOther\('/html/n/nattier/marc/le\_fevre.html'\)" href="/html/n/nattier/marc/le\_fevre.html">portrait of his wife</a> was painted by Jean-Marc Nattier. ## Related artworks - [Bust of a Child]() - [Bust of Alexandre Brongniart]() - [Bust of Anne-Ange Houdon]() - [Bust of Diderot]() - [Bust of George Washington]() - [Bust of George Washington]() - [Bust of Mirabeau]() - [Bust of Napoleon]() - [Bust of the Artist's Wife]() - [Bust of the Comtesse de Sabran]() - [Bust of Thomas Jefferson]() - [Denis Diderot]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()