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See also:LEMOYNE, See also:JEAN See also:BAPTISTE (1704—1778) , See also:French sculptor, was the See also:- PUPIL (Lat. pupillus, orphan, minor, dim. of pupus, boy, allied to puer, from root pm- or peu-, to beget, cf. "pupa," Lat. for " doll," the name given to the stage intervening between the larval and imaginal stages in certain insects)
pupil of his See also:father, jean See also:- LOUIS
- LOUIS (804–876)
- LOUIS (893–911)
- LOUIS, JOSEPH DOMINIQUE, BARON (1755-1837)
- LOUIS, or LEWIS (from the Frankish Chlodowich, Chlodwig, Latinized as Chlodowius, Lodhuwicus, Lodhuvicus, whence-in the Strassburg oath of 842-0. Fr. Lodhuwigs, then Chlovis, Loys and later Louis, whence Span. Luiz and—through the Angevin kings—Hungarian
Louis Lemoyne, and of See also:Robert le Lorrain. He was a See also:great figure in his See also:day, around whose modest and kindly See also:personality there waged opposing storms of denunciation and See also:applause. Although his disregard of the classic tradition and of the essentials of dignified See also:sculpture, as well as his lack of firmness and of intellectual grasp of the larger principles of his See also:art, See also:lay him open to stringent See also:criticism, de Clarac's See also:charge that he had delivered a mortal See also:blow at sculpture is altogether exaggerated. Lemoyne's more important See also:works have for the most See also:part been destroyed or have disappeared. The equestrian statue of " Louis XV." for the military school, and the See also:composition of " See also:Mignard's daughter, Mme Feuquieres, kneeling before her father's bust " (which bust was from the See also:hand of See also:Coysevox) were subjected to the violence by which See also:Bouchardon's equestrian See also:monument of Louis XIV. (q.v.) was destroyed. The panels only have been preserved. In his busts See also:evidence of his riotous and florid See also:imagination to a great extent disappears, and we have a remarkable See also:series of important portraits, of which those of See also:women are perhaps the best. Among Lemoyne's leading achievements in this class are " See also:Fontenelle
(at See also:Versailles), " See also:Voltaire," " Latour " (all of 1748), " Duc de la Valiere " ( Versailles), " See also:Comte de St Florentin," and " See also:Crebillon " (See also:Dijon Museum); " Mlle See also:Chiron " and " Mlle Dangeville," both produced in 1761 and both at the See also:Theatre See also:Francais in See also:Paris, and " Mme de See also:Pompadour," the See also:work of the same See also:year. Of the Pompadour he also executed a statue in the See also:costume of a nymph, very delicate and playful in its See also:air of See also:- GRACE (Fr. grace, Lat. gratia, from grates, beloved, pleasing; formed from the root cra-, Gr. xav-, cf. xaipw, x6p,ua, Xapts)
- GRACE, WILLIAM GILBERT (1848– )
grace. Lemoyne was perhaps most successful in his training of pupils, one of the leaders of whom was Falconnet.
End of Article: LEMOYNE, JEAN BAPTISTE (1704—1778)
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