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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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differents projets de Tombeaux de M. le Cardinal Fleury exposes au Salon de 1745, II etait certain de gagner, Avant que les tombiaux Ton vit. Ceux donc qui ont fait les pu biaux lis ont donne ldpee a liau Le plus moindre a et£ choisy. 5 Public opinion for once seems to have been too strong for deCaylus and hindered the execution by Bouchardon of the royalcommission ; the family of the Cardinal waited in vain for the fulfil-ment of the Kings intentions 4 till, finally in 1768—more thantwenty years after the famous competition—they erected, at theirown cost, the monument which had been designed by Lemoyneand exhibited by him in 1743.5 In the following year, 1769, the public rushed to inspect Mem., Cochin, p. 92. 2 A. de lA. fr., t. v., p. 64. 3 Ibid., p. 62. 4 In 1760 Bouchardon was paid for the clay models made by him for this tomb,and which were exhibited in 1743 and 1745. A.N.O.1 2256, f°. 352rto. Courajod,Journal Duvaux, t. i., p. ccii. 5 See Mem. Bachaumont, 28 Jan., 1768. I02
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Mlle. Dangeville. By Jean-Baptiste Lemoyne.(Theatre Francais.) Lemoynes statue of the King, a model of which in plaster had been Theset up in one of the courts of the Ecole Militaire. The figure, Lemoyne as in the work, which he executed for Rennes, was on foot, and fully and armed ; il a des brassards, des cuissards et son casque est a cote de Etiennelui. 1 Connoisseurs were but ill-pleased with this statue, which net<they declared to be without life, fire, or majesty ; and when thework came into the hands of Lenoir, it is not surprising to findhim declaring that Louis XV., vetu a la romaine, ayant les pieds endehors, ressemble beaucoup plus a un danseur qua un roi de France. None of the larger works by Jean-Baptiste Lemoyne, whichhave remained to us, show any traces of the fire and genius whichwriters, such as Mariette, have ascribed to him. Diderot, whoadmired his work in terra cotta, suggested that he never knew howto work in marble. Certainly his work in marble—with, perhaps,t

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