Jean-Baptiste Lemoyne
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| Born | Jean Baptiste Lemoyne 15 February 1704 Paris, France |
| Died | 25 May 1778 (aged 74) Paris, France |
| Nationality | French |
| Known for | Sculpture |
| Notable work | Fontaine des Quatre-Saisons |
Jean-Baptiste Lemoyne (15 February 1704 – 1778) was a French
Life
Jean-Baptiste Lemoyne was born in Paris in 1704. His father Jean-Louis Lemoyne, was also a sculptor, and was first teacher. He later became a student of another prominent sculptor, Robert Le Lorrain.[2] He is sometimes referred to as Jean-Baptiste II Lemoyne or "the younger" to distinguish him from his uncle of the same name, another sculptor, Jean-Baptiste Lemoyne the Elder.[3]
He received the
He was especially known for the quality of his portrait busts, which captured the passing nuances of expression and gave a sense of movement. His important portrait busts included those of the naturalist
Lemoyne's students included Étienne Maurice Falconet Jean-Baptiste Pigalle, and Augustin Pajou.[7]
Sculpture
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The Comtesse de Feuquieres by Jean-Baptiste Lemoyne. Terracotta, circa 1738 CE. From Paris, France. The Victoria and Albert Museum, London -
A plaster bust of his friendNoel-Nicolas Coypel, 1730 (Snite Museum of Art) -
Louis XV (1749), Palace of Versailles -
Model for a Monument to Louis XV in Rennes (1746–48), Art Institute of Chicago -
Vertumnus and Pomona, 1760 (the Louvre) -
Essaying and scientist Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle (1749) Carnegie Museum of Art -
Geneviève-Françoise Randon de Malboissière (1768), Metropolitan Museum of Art -
Marie-Antoinette(1771) (Musée d'Histoire de l'art, Vienne) -
The Duchesse de La Rochefoucauld (1774), Metropolitan Museum of Art
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See also
Notes
- ^ Le Petit Robert des Noms Propres, (2010)
- ^ Louis Réau, Une dynastie de sculpteurs au XVIIIe siècle : les Lemoyne, 1927.
- ^ Le Petit Robert des Noms Propres, (2010)
- ^ Le Petit Robert des Noms Propres, (2010)
- ^ Le Petit Robert des Noms Propres, (2010)
- ^ Geese, L'Art Baroque – Architecture, sculpture, peinture (2015), pg. 314
- ISBN 9781848220430.
Bibliography
- Brocvielle, Vincent (2017). La Petit Larousse de l'Histoire de l'Art (in French). Larousse. ISBN 978-2-03-5936-39-4.
- Jeancolas, Claude (1992). Sculpture Française. Paris: CELIV. ISBN 2-86535-162-9.
- Geese, Uwe, Section on Baroque sculpture in L'Art Baroque – Architecture – Sculpture – Peinture (French translation from German), H.F. Ulmann, Cologne, 2015. (ISBN 978-3-8480-0856-8)
- Duby, Georges and Daval, Jean-Luc, La Sculpture de l'Antiquité au XXe Siècle, (French translation from German), Taschen, (2013), (ISBN 978-3-8365-4483-2)
External links
Media related to Jean-Baptiste Lemoyne the Younger at Wikimedia Commons- Jean-Baptiste Lemoyne in American public collections, on the French Sculpture Census website
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