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Title: French architects and sculptors of the XVIIIth century
Year: 1900 (1900s)
Authors: Dilke, Emilia Francis Strong, Lady, 1840-1904
Subjects: Architects Sculpture, French Sculptors
Publisher: London, G. Bell and sons
Contributing Library: Getty Research Institute
Digitizing Sponsor: Getty Research Institute

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showed his Burdigal optimo principi. 1732, but the monument does not appear to have beencompleted until 1743. Mem. in£d., t. ii., p. 333, and A. de lA. fr., t. vi., p. III. 1 Lemoyne exhibited a portrait head, in terra cotta, of Mme. de Feuquieres in1738, probably the bust which figured in the colledion of la Live de Jully. Courajod,Journal Duvaux, t. i., p. cclxxxi. 2 Mem. ined., t.ii., pp. 315, 332; dArg., Vies des Sculpteurs, t. ii., pp. 354~356and 365. The bronze statuette of the king has been lent by the town of Bordeaux tothe Exposition Retrospective at present open in connection with the Paris Exhibition. 5 Pieces relatives a lexecution du monument elev£ dans la ville de Rennes duroi Louis XV. par les etats de Bourgogne. As we have seen, Gor was intrusted in1758 with the casting of Bouchardons statue of Louis XV. 4 A. de lA. fr., t. v., p. 261. This statue had originally been intended forNantes. See Ramee, Fillon and Montaiglon, Ibid., pp. 223-264. • Ex. Salon of 1755. IOO
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FONTENELLE. By JEAN-BAPTIST E LeMOYNE. (Mitsee de Versailles.) great satisfaction to the representatives of the province as well as to Thethe Sr Lemoyne, promising to name lenfant dont lepouse de ce Lemoynesculpteur est enceinte. and The tomb of Mignard, the second work approved by Bachau- p*^^emont, has been somewhat less unfortunate. It was erected (1742) net>in the church of the Jacobins St. Honore,1 but having beendisturbed during the Revolution,2 was presented to St. Rochin 18 18. There, those in authority removed Mme. de Feuquieresfrom her place beneath the celebrated bust of her father byCoyzevox,3 and she now does duty as a Magdalen at the foot ofthe Cross, a position which, calling to mind the character of the fairlady in question, appears to have a malicious appropriateness.4 In the Chapelle des Fonts Baptismaux of the same churchmay also be seen Le Bapteme de Jesus Christ, a group inheritedfrom St. Jean en Greve.5 The style is poor, the treatment ofform and the airs of t

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