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Title: French architects and sculptors of the XVIIIth century
Year: 1900 (1900s)
Authors: Dilke, Emilia Francis Strong, Lady, 1840-1904
Subjects: Architects Sculpture, French Sculptors
Publisher: London, G. Bell and sons
Contributing Library: Getty Research Institute
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et cet ;mais surtout noubliez pas ma maniere.2 Lenoir is here evidently indulging in caricature, for if we readLemoynes own letter concerning Robert le Lorrain—to whoseinstructions he, like Pigalle, was deeply indebted—we find him re-ferring to the scavantes etudes of his master, and speaking of the male et terrible genie de Michel Ange, in terms which make itimpossible to believe that the man, who thus characterises thequalities to be admired in art, could possibly have directed theattention of his pupils to the exclusive study of Bernin andBoromini.3 The truth is that Jean-Baptiste Lemoyne represents,after a somewhat emasculate fashion, traditions inherited, throughhis father, from Coyzevox. Bouchardon broke into obstinate 1 1704-1778. R., 26 July, 1738. Professor, 2 July, 1740. Re&or, 30 Jan., 1768. 2 Musee des Monumens Prancais, t. iv., p. 127. Mem. ined., t. ii., p. 228. 98 Portrait Bust, in marble, of a Woman. By Jean-Louis Lemoyne.(Collection of M. k Comte Fillet-Will.)
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revolt; the powerful temperament of Pigalle enabled him to absorb Theand read: against his training, but Jean-Baptiste Lemoyne, like f^£°y°lmany less considerable men—as, for example, Pigalles brother-in- andlaw, Allegrain1—followed in a state of peaceful conviction the p^JJepaths indicated by his father. net> Of the father, Jean-Louis,2—the author of the Portement dela Croix, in the chapel at Versailles—it was said that his greatestdistinction was that of having given birth to a son lequel a etecharge dune infinite de grands ouvrages et sy est acquis de la re-putation.3 Yet Jean-Louis is the Lemoyne of whom Pattedeclared that he formed Warin, le conduisit et lui apprit a devenirfondeur de statues colossales. The reputation of Jean-Baptiste wasmuch contested even in his own day. Amongst his early worksnow remaining are four of the high reliefs in stucco which fill thespandrils between the doors and windows of the Salon ovale in theHotel de Soubise, but I fail to find any

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