Portrait of Jean-Baptiste Lemoyne the Younger

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Portrait of Jean-Baptiste Lemoyne the Younger

Elisabeth Louise Vigée-LeBrunLinkedCulture matchlcp-e6548e1fb4d1

Date
1774
Medium
oil on canvas
Culture
France, 18th century
Department
European Painting and Sculpture
Institution
Cleveland Museum of Art
Object ID
169684

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This signed portrait reinterprets a well-known pastel by Maurice-Quentin de La Tour of the important French sculptor Jean-Baptiste Lemoyne the younger (1704–1778). The sculptor, seen toward the end of his life, appears in working garb. His close-cropped grey hair, frank, observant stare, and bemused smile all demonstrate the closeness of the young painter to the elder sculptor. The work also speaks to Vigée-LeBrun’s interest in naturalistic portraiture (as opposed to her more formal, commissioned portraits), and—in the handling of the paint as well as her source image—her debt to pastel painting, her original medium. Jean-Baptiste Lemoyne was a sculptor--there's one of his works in the CMA's collection.

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Credit line
Bequest of Dr. Paul J. Vignos Jr.
Provenance
1774-1778: Jean-Baptiste Lemoyne the Younger (1704-1778), Paris, France, by inheritance to the Lemoyne Family | Lemoyne Family, by inheritance to Yves Le Moyne | -1912: Yves Le Moyne, sold through Hotel Drouot | February 5, 1912: Sale: Hotel Drouot, Paris, France, February 5, 1912, lot 76 | -2010: Paul J. Vignos, Jr. (1919-2010), Cleveland, OH, upon his death, held in trust by the estate. | 2010-2011: Estate of Paul J. Vignos, Jr., by bequest to the Cleveland Museum of Art | 2011-: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH

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