Saturday, October 29, 2022

François Lemoyne - Figure Studies for Paintings I

François Lemoyne
Figure Studies for Hercules and Cacus
(figures of Hercules and Cacus)
1717
drawing
(study for painting)
Musée du Louvre

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

François Lemoyne
Figure Study for Apollo and Daphne
(figure of Apollo)
ca. 1725
drawing
(study for painting)
Musée du Louvre

François Lemoyne
Figure Study for
The Continence of Scipio

(supplementary figure)
ca. 1727
drawing
(study for painting)
Musée du Louvre

François Lemoyne
Figure Study for
The Continence of Scipio

(supplementary figure)
ca. 1727
drawing
(study for painting)
Musée du Louvre

François Lemoyne
Figure Study for Vow of St Louis
(figure of St Louis)
ca. 1727
drawing
(study for painting)
Musée du Louvre

François Lemoyne
Figure Studies for Ulysses bending his Bow
(figures of Penelope's Suitors)
ca. 1729
drawing
(study for painting)
Musée du Louvre

François Lemoyne
Figure Study for The Assumption
(figure of Angel)
ca. 1731
drawing
(study for painting)
Musée du Louvre

François Lemoyne
Figure Study for The Assumption
(figure of St Sulpice)
ca. 1731
drawing
(study for painting)
Musée du Louvre

François Lemoyne
Figure Study for The Apotheosis of Hercules
(figure of Apollo)
ca. 1733-36
drawing
(study for painting)
Musée du Louvre

François Lemoyne
Figure Study for The Apotheosis of Hercules
(figure of Neptune)
ca. 1733-36
drawing
(study for painting)
Musée du Louvre

François Lemoyne
Figure Study for
Healing of the Blind Man

(figure of Blind Man)
ca. 1735
drawing
(study for painting)
Musée du Louvre

François Lemoyne
Figure Study for
Healing of the Blind Man

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

Blind Joy

Crude seeing's all our joy: could we discern
The cold dark infinite vast where atoms burn
– Lone suns – in flesh, our treasure and our play,
Who'd dare to breathe this fern-thick bird-rich day?

– John Frederick Nims (1968)