Louis Tocqué (Paris 1696-1772)

Portrait of the sculptor Jean-Louis Lemoyne (1665-1755), bust-length, in a red jacket

細節

Louis Tocqué (Paris 1696-1772)
Portrait of the sculptor Jean-Louis Lemoyne (1665-1755), bust-length, in a red jacket
oil on canvas, oval
25¼ x 21¼in. (64 x 53.9cm.)

來源

with Galerie Cailleux, Paris (Eloge de l'ovale, 1975, no. 39). Anon. Sale, Christie's, Monaco, 30 June 1995, lot 51.

出版

E. and J. de Goncourt, L'Art du dix-huitième siècle, Paris, 1914, p. 467.
L. Réau, Une Dynastie, les Lemoynes, Paris, 1927, p. 15.
A. Doria, Louis Tocqué, Paris, 1929, pp. 52 and 117, no. 171.
A. Doria, 'Les Discours de Tocqué à l'Académie, réflexions sur la peinture et particulièrement sur le genre du portrait' in Bulletin de la Société de l'Histoire de l'Art Français, 1929, pp. 281-2.
A. Doria, 'Tocqué conférencier', in Gazette des Beaux-Arts, October 1931, p. 226, fig. 3.
G. Charensol, review of the exhibition L'Eloge de l'ovale, in La Nouvelle Revue des Deux Mondes, January 1976, p. 173.

展覽

Paris, Salon, 1743, no. 66.

刻印

Augustin de Saint-Aubin, in reverse, as a morceau de réception, 1780 (unfinished)(fig. 1).

拍品專文

The present painting is one of three portraits that Louis Tocqué painted of his uncle, the sculptor Jean-Louis Lemoyne. The first of these, executed in 1734, was Tocqué's morceau de reception for the Académie Royale (fig. 2). It is today in the Louvre. The present picture, exhibited at the Salon of 1743, shows Lemoyne ten years later at the age of 75. A third portrait was recorded in the collection of Count Doria in the 1930s. (A. Doria, op. cit., p. 70, fig. 35). The sculptor's father, the painter Jean Lemoyne, was Tocqué's grandfather and teacher.

Jean-Louis Lemoyne was a pupil of the sculptor Coysevox. In 1690, he entered the Academy in Bordeaux where he lived for a few years before returning to Paris and marrying Armande Monnoyer, daughter of the flower painter Jean-Baptiste Monnoyer. Lemoyne was accepted at the Academy in Paris with his 1703 morçeau de reception, a portrait of Mansard. He was sculptor to the king and under the protection of the Duc d'Orléans. With his son, Jean-Baptiste -- with whom he is sometimes confused -- he built a foundry-workshop in the rue du Roule large enough for the casting of an equestrian statue of Louis XV. This statue, an impressive commission, was created for the city of Bordeaux and would occupy him for ten years. Despite his artistic success, Jean-Louis Lemoyne seems to have been in constant financial difficulties throughout his life. Ill and blind, he retired in 1747.