SCULPTURE: Jean Baptiste Lemoyne o Lemoine



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KEY: LEIM 1

TITLE:
Pomone et Vertumne otant son masque

DESCRIPTION:

PLACING:
The Louvre Museum, Paris.

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NOTES:
In this sculpture Madame Pompadour has the features of Pomone.

The sculptor, Jean Baptiste Lemoyne is the homonym of Lemoyne the painter (1688-1737), and was part of a generation of sculptors: Jean Baptiste I° (1679-1737) and his brother Jean Louis (1655-1755, his sculptures "The Baptism of Christ" in the church of S. Rocco and “The Neptune” in Versailles).
Jean Baptiste II° was his nephew.


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KEY: LEIM 2

TITLE:
Mme de Pompadour

DESCRIPTION:

PLACING:
Private collection

PERIOD:
1756

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