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| François Lemoyne Drapery Study for The Assumption (supplementary figure) ca. 1731 drawing (study for painting) Musée du Louvre |
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| François Lemoyne Drapery Study for The Assumption (St. Sulpice) ca. 1731 drawing (study for painting) Musée du Louvre |
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| François Lemoyne Drapery Study for The Assumption (supplementary figures) ca. 1731 drawing (study for painting) Musée du Louvre |
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| François Lemoyne Drapery Study for The Assumption (Church Father) ca. 1731 drawing (study for painting) Musée du Louvre |
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| François Lemoyne Drapery Study for The Apotheosis of Hercules ca. 1733-36 drawing (study for ceiling painting) Musée du Louvre |
"Despite winning the Prix de Rome in 1711, Lemoyne could not visit Italy until 1723 and then spent only a few months there. . . . In 1727 Lemoyne was forced to split first prize in the Duc d'Antin's famous competition to promote history painting with his rival Jean-François de Troy. Probably in 1728, King Louis XV offered Lemoyne his most important commission: the ceiling of the Hercules Salon at Versailles. Completed in 1736, the Apotheosis of Hercules contains 142 figures, brilliant coloring and, contemporaries believed, the qualities of an epic poem. Louis XV immediately named Lemoyne premier peintre. Soon after, broken by excessive work, court jealousies and intrigues, and his wife's death, Lemoyne went mad and silently stabbed himself to death."
– from curator's notes at the Getty Museum, Los Angeles
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| François Lemoyne Drapery Study for Adoration of the Shepherds (St. Joseph) ca. 1721 drawing (study for painting) Musée du Louvre |
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| François Lemoyne Drapery Study for The Blinding of Elymas the Sorcerer (supplementary figure) ca. 1719 drawing (study for painting) Musée du Louvre |
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| François Lemoyne Drapery Study for Healing of the Blind Man (Blind Man) ca. 1735 drawing (study for painting) Musée du Louvre |
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| François Lemoyne Drapery Study for Healing of the Blind Man (supplementary figure) ca. 1735 drawing (study for painting) Musée du Louvre |
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| François Lemoyne Drapery Study for Hercules and Cacus (supplementary figure) 1717 drawing (study for painting) Musée du Louvre |
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| François Lemoyne Drapery Study for St Basil before Modestus (supplementary figure) ca. 1720 drawing (study for painting) Musée du Louvre |
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| François Lemoyne Drapery Study for St Basil before Modestus (supplementary figure) ca. 1720 drawing (study for painting) Musée du Louvre |
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| François Lemoyne Drapery Study for The Transfiguration (Angel) ca. 1723 drawing (study for painting) Musée du Louvre |
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| François Lemoyne Drapery Study for The Vow of St Louis (St Louis) ca. 1727 drawing (study for painting) Musée du Louvre |
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| François Lemoyne Drapery Study for Louis XV giving Peace to Europe (Figure of Contemplation) before 1737 drawing (print study for thesis frontispiece) Musée du Louvre |