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(1) Jean-Louis Lemoyne
(b Paris, 1665; d Paris, 31 May 1755). A pupil of Antoine Coyzevox, he won the Prix de Rome in 1687 with a low relief of the Flood (untraced), although he did not undertake the customary journey to Italy. Instead he entered the Ecole Académique at Bordeaux, presenting as his morceau de réception a portrait of Louis XIV (walnut, 1692; untraced). While in Bordeaux he modelled his bust of Michel Du Plessis (marble, 1694; Bordeaux, Mus. Aquitaine), one of the principal architects of the city. By 1697 he had returned to Paris and was received (reçu) as a member of the Académie Royale de Peinture et de Sculpture in 1703 on presentation of a magisterial, over life-size bust of Jules Hardouin Mansart (marble, h. 1.1 m; Paris, Louvre).
Part of the Lemoyne family
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