Lot n° 271
Estimation :
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EUR
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Result
: 280EUR
19th century FRENCH SCHOOL after Jean-Baptiste II LEMOYNE (1 - Lot 271
19th century FRENCH SCHOOL after Jean-Baptiste II LEMOYNE (1704-1778)
Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle (1657-1757), writer
Bust in patinated plaster.
Accident to the pedestal.
H. 62 cm
RELATED WORKS: Jean-Baptiste II Lemoyne, Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle, 1748, marble, H. 66 cm, Château de Versailles, inv. MV 850; Jean-Baptiste II Lemoyne, Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle, 1748, terracotta, H. 59 cm, Lyon, Musée des Beaux-Arts, inv. 1974-4.
RELATED LITERATURE: Claire Barbillon, Catherine Chevillot, Sculptures du XVIIe au XXe siècle : Musée des Beaux-Arts de Lyon, Paris, Somogy, 2017, terracotta model listed under no. 18, pp. 90-91; Simone Hoog, Musée national du Château de Versailles. Les sculptures, Paris, RMN, 1993, marble model listed under no. 630, p. 150.
Jean-Baptiste II Lemoyne, sculptor-portraitist to Louis XV, created the marble bust of Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle in 1745, which was preserved until the artist's workshop was dispersed at the time of his death. In 1839, the marble was acquired by Louis-Philippe to complete the collection of the Galeries historiques de Versailles. He also executed this terracotta bust between March and August 1748, in gratitude for his appointment as an associate member of the Institution of Rouen. The work was exhibited at the Salon of the same year and met with great success, leading Lemoyne to produce several terracotta copies. Later, Jean Pouzadoux (1829-1893) produced molds in patinated plaster, one of which is preserved at the Cité de l'architecture et du patrimoine (entered 1885, inv. MOU.00593).
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