Sunday, October 30, 2022

François Lemoyne - Figure Studies for Paintings II

François Lemoyne
Figure Study for Baptism of Christ
(figure of Christ)
ca. 1717
drawing
(study for painting)
Musée du Louvre

François Lemoyne
Figure Study for Tancred surrendering Arms to Clorinda
(supplementary figure)
ca. 1722
drawing
(study for painting)
Musée du Louvre

François Lemoyne
Figure Study for The Transfiguration
(Angel)
ca. 1723
drawing
(study for painting)
Musée du Louvre

François Lemoyne
Figure Study for The Transfiguration
(Angel)
ca. 1723
drawing
(study for painting)
Musée du Louvre

François Lemoyne
Figure Studies for The Transfiguration
(Angels)
ca. 1723
drawing
(study for painting)
Musée du Louvre

François Lemoyne
Figure Study for The Transfiguration
(figure of Elijah)
ca. 1723
drawing
(study for painting)
Musée du Louvre

François Lemoyne
Figure Study for The Transfiguration
(figure of Moses)
ca. 1723
drawing
(study for painting)
Musée du Louvre

François Lemoyne
Figure Study for The Transfiguration
(figure of St James)
ca. 1723
drawing
(study for painting)
Musée du Louvre

François Lemoyne
Figure Study for The Transfiguration
(figure of St John the Evangelist)
ca. 1723
drawing
(study for painting)
Musée du Louvre

François Lemoyne
Studies for Louis XV giving Peace to Europe
(figure of Mercury)
ca. 1727
drawing
(study for painting)
Musée du Louvre

François Lemoyne
Studies for Louis XV giving Peace to Europe
(studies of hands)
ca. 1727
drawing
(study for painting)
Musée du Louvre

François Lemoyne
Figure and Drapery Study for The Assumption
(supplementary figure)
ca. 1731
drawing
(study for painting)
Musée du Louvre

François Lemoyne
Figure and Drapery Studies for The Assumption
(supplementary figures)
ca. 1731
drawing
(study for painting)
Musée du Louvre

François Lemoyne
Figure and Drapery Studies for
Healing of the Blind Man

(supplementary figures)
ca. 1735
drawing
(study for painting)
Musée du Louvre

François Lemoyne
Figure and Drapery Study for 
Healing of the Blind Man

(supplementary figure)
ca. 1735
drawing
(study for painting)
Musée du Louvre

Fragment

Sir, say no more.
Within me 't is as if
The green and climbing eyesight of a cat
Crawled near my mind's poor birds.

– Trumbull Stickney (ca. 1903)