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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
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t to have made a true success of immense undertakings suchas that at Rennes. It is not improbable that Lemoynes ambitionand acquired theories and convictions were at variance with hisnatural tendencies and instincts. Something of this ill-assuredcondition seems to have affected his bearing when in the companyof others, for we find Diderot describing him at one time as coldand awkward, and at another as doux, maniere, honnete. Mar-montel lays stress on his diffidence and timidity,6 and no doubt his 1 See Chron. des Arts, 1896, p. 39 and p. 68. 2 Musee de Dijon. 3 Lent by M. Perdreau. See also No. 762, Sculptures T. M. Louvre, and note 2,P- 99- 4 Lent by M. Germain Bapst, who also exhibited a small bust of a woman byJean-Louis Lemoyne dated 1749. 5 Both of these works were in terra-cotta. The one belonging to M. EdouardAndrd was of remarkable excellence. 6 Mem., t. vi., p. 358, ed. Verdiere, 1818. 104 Floke-Baigneuse. Bv Jean-Baptiste Lemoyne.(Collection of Sir John Murray Scott, Bart.)
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sensitive indulgence had much to say to his success with his pupils. TheHe was, we know, le plus doux des maitres, and when re- Lemoyneproached with too great leniency, would reply, like Chardin, Que andvoulez vous que je dise a ces jeunes gens ? lis vaudront peut-etre Etienneun jour mieux que moi. 1 net> This habit of kindly indulgence would seem to have been in-herited by Jean-Baptiste from his father and teacher, Jean-Louis.Etienne Falconnet,2 also a pupil of Jean-Louis,3 has told us how, infear and trembling, he knocked at the studio door, having heard ofthe master as one highly skilled in his art, although dune rarebonte. A little man, he says, covered with plaster, dust and clay,and wearing a workmans jacket, opened to him : Come in, saidhe, it is I who am M. Lemoyne. And Falconnet, encouraged bythe kindly sculptor, received from him not only constant and carefulteaching, but that help in other ways without which he, born ofpoor parents, could not have devoted himself to his

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