CROZAT, PIERRE (1661-1740), French art collector, was born at Toulouse, of a family who were prominent French finan ciers and collectors. He became treasurer to the king in Paris, and acquired a magnificent collection of pictures and objets d'art, which descended to his nephews, Louis Francois (d. 1750), Joseph Antoine (d. 750), and Louis Antoine (d. 1770), and were dispersed after their deaths ; the collection of Louis Antoine Crozat went to St. Petersburg (Leningrad).