Pierre Crozat

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Rembrandt's painting Danae from Crozat's collection.
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Rembrandt's painting Danae from Crozat's collection.

Pierre Crozat (1661-1740) was a French art collector and brother of Antoine Crozat.

Crozat was born in Toulouse to a family of prominent French financiers and collectors. He became treasurer to the king in Paris, and gradually acquired a magnificent collection of pictures and objets d'art. He was the principal patron of Antoine Watteau and other early Rococo artists.

Between 1729 and 1742, a finely illustrated, two-volume work was published, known as the Cabinet Crozat, including the finest pictures in French collections.

Most of Crozat's treasures descended to his nephews, Louis François (d. 1750), Joseph Antoine (d. 1750), and Louis Antoine (d. 1770), and were augmented by them, being dispersed after their deaths; the collection of Louis Antoine Crozat was bought through Denis Diderot by Catherine II of Russia and went to the Hermitage Museum in St Petersburg.

This article incorporates text from the Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition, a publication now in the public domain.

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