dix-huitième." Most of Crozat's treasures were inherited by his nephews, Louis François (d. 1750), Joseph Antoine (d. 1750), and Louis Antoine (d. 1770), who added to the collection. The works of art were dispersed after the nephews' deaths. Louis Antoine Crozat's collection was bought in 1772, through Denis Diderot and Vasiliy Rudanovsky, by Catherine II of Russia and went to the Hermitage Museum in Saint Petersburg. See also :Category:Crozat collection References Further reading Barbara Scott, Pierre Crozat. A Maecenas of the Régence, in: Apollo 97:1973, pp. 11–20. Margret Stuffmann, Les tableaux de la collection de Pierre Crozat, in: Gazette des Beaux Arts 110:1968, pp. 11–144. External links 1661 births 1740 deaths French financiers French art collectors Businesspeople from Toulouse Occitan people 17th-century French businesspeople 18th-century French businesspeople