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.