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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
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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
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Renaissance to revolution: French drawings from the National Gallery of Art, 1500–1800
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in American public collections, on the French Sculpture Census website
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The Duchesse de La Rochefoucauld (1774), Metropolitan Museum of Art
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Une dynastie de sculpteurs au XVIIIe siècle : les Lemoyne
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Jean-Baptiste Lemoyne was born in Paris in 1704. His father
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in 1771. He is considered the most skilled of the French
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but was best known for his expressive portrait busts.
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L'Art Baroque – Architecture – Sculpture – Peinture
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He was a particular favorite of 21:Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne de Bienville 13: 364:(1768), Metropolitan Museum of Art 14: 689: 616:Jean-Baptiste Lemoyne the Younger 603: 206:René Antoine Ferchault de Réaumur 678:18th-century French male artists 673:Material culture of royal courts 609: 479:Le Petit Robert des Noms Propres 467:Le Petit Robert des Noms Propres 455:Le Petit Robert des Noms Propres 427:Le Petit Robert des Noms Propres 384: 369: 354: 338: 321: 302: 284: 264: 252: 25:Jean-Baptiste Lemoyne (composer) 526: 347:Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle 497: 484: 472: 460: 448: 432: 420: 1: 349:(1749) Carnegie Museum of Art 271:A plaster bust of his friend 663:18th-century French painters 533:Brocvielle, Vincent (2017). 245: 231:Lemoyne's students included 7: 396: 277:Raclin Murphy Museum of Art 123:Fontaine des Quatre-Saisons 16:French sculptor (1704–1778) 10: 694: 554:Jeancolas, Claude (1992). 18: 116: 106: 96: 80: 61: 41: 34: 413: 315:Art Institute of Chicago 233:Étienne Maurice Falconet 23:. For the composer, see 539:(in French). Larousse. 345:Essaying and scientist 152: 48:Portrait of Lemoyne by 212:(1760); the scientist 658:French male sculptors 622:Jean-Baptiste Lemoyne 236:Jean-Baptiste Pigalle 178:Gardens of Versailles 147:Gardens of Versailles 131:Jean-Baptiste Lemoyne 66:Jean Baptiste Lemoyne 36:Jean Baptiste Lemoyne 668:French male painters 618:at Wikimedia Commons 330:Vertumnus and Pomona 296:Palace of Versailles 208:(1751); the painter 55:Palace of Versailles 556:Sculpture Française 333:, 1760 (the Louvre) 273:Noel-Nicolas Coypel 218:Madame de Pompadour 210:Noël-Nicolas Coypel 182:Madame de Pompadour 546:978-2-03-5936-39-4 159:Jean-Louis Lemoyne 614:Media related to 597:978-3-8365-4483-2 582:978-3-8480-0856-8 216:(at Versailles); 198:French Revolution 163:Robert Le Lorrain 128: 127: 685: 653:French sculptors 629: 613: 569: 558:. 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Index

Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne de Bienville
Jean-Baptiste Lemoyne (composer)

Jean Valade
Palace of Versailles
Paris
French
Sculpture
Fontaine des Quatre-Saisons
sculptor
rococo
neoclassical
Gardens of Versailles
Jean-Louis Lemoyne
Robert Le Lorrain
prix de Rome
Académie royale de peinture et de sculpture
Gardens of Versailles
Madame de Pompadour
Metamorphoses
Ovid
Ecole Militaire
French Revolution
René Antoine Ferchault de Réaumur
Noël-Nicolas Coypel
Fontenelle
Madame de Pompadour
Marie-Antoinette
rococo
Étienne Maurice Falconet

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