Title
Portrait of Jean-Baptiste Lemoyne the Younger, 1772. Creator: Elisabeth Louise Vigée-LeBrun (French, 1755-1842).
Caption
Portrait of Jean-Baptiste Lemoyne the Younger, 1772. This portrait reinterprets a pastel by Maurice-Quentin de La Tour (1704-1788) 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. A recent conservation treatment and a new frame more appropriate for a work of the 1770s reveal the painting to be a crucial early work by the artist as she made the transition from pastel to oil paint.
Date
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Credit line
Photo12/Heritage Images/Heritage Art
Reference
HRM19G00_280
Model release
NA
Property release
NA
License type
Rights managed
Available size
109,9Mb (4,8Mb) / 19,0in x 22,5in / 5692 x 6749 (300dpi)