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Lemoyne [Lemoine; Le Moyne], François
(b Paris, 1688; d Paris, 4 June 1737). French painter and draughtsman. He may have owed his vocation to his stepfather Robert Tournières, although he certainly did not receive any instruction from him. In 1701 he went to work in the studio of Louis Galloche, and he also studied at the Académie Royale de Peinture et de Sculpture, Paris, where Nicolas Lancret was a fellow student. In 1711 he won the Premier Prix but was not awarded the usual Rome scholarship. In 1716 he was approved (agréé) by the Académie Royale, and in the following year he received his first commission—a series of episodes from the Life of Christ (Sens Cathedral) for the Franciscan convent in Amiens. In 1718 Lemoyne was received (reçu) as a full member of the Académie Royale, a year after Antoine Watteau, on presentation of Hercules and Cacus (Paris, Ecole N. Sup. B.-A.). During the following years he painted a number of religious and mythological pictures as well as producing a scheme for the ceiling of the Banque Royale in Paris (drawing, Paris, Louvre; oil sketch, Paris, Mus. A. Déc.), a commission ultimately entrusted to Giovanni Antonio Pellegrini. In 1721 Lemoyne made the acquaintance of a financier, François Berger (1684–1747), who asked him to paint Tancred and Clorinda (Besançon, Mus. B.-A. & Archéol.) and invited the artist towards the end of 1723 to spend several months in Italy at his expense. Although Lemoyne’s contemporaries believed they could detect the influence on his subsequent work of Veronese and Parmigianino and of Michelangelo and Pietro da Cortona, Watelet noted that this brief stay came too late in Lemoyne’s career to result in any real change of style. It was in Italy that he painted Hercules and Omphale (Paris, Louvre) and the first version of The Bather (Dallas, TX, priv. col.), which was begun in Bologna, continued in Venice and finished in Rome. Both these paintings were acquired by Berger.
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- Lemoyne, François
- Bourbon, §I: (10) Louis XV, King of France
- History painting, §I, 4: 1700–c 1760s
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- Antin, d’
- Azincourt, Barthélémy-Augustin Blondel d’
- Bourbon, §II: (2) Elizabeth, Queen of Spain
- France, §III, 4(i): Painting & graphic arts, c 1715–c 1814: Rise of the Rococo
- Lempereur, Jean-Denis, II
- Robien, Christophe-Paul Gautron
- Seymour-Conway: (2) Richard Seymour-Conway, 4th Marquess of Hertford
- Verrue, Jeanne-Baptiste d’Albert de Luynes
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