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accession number: 1952.566
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Portrait of Melle de Vandeul, possibly 1760. Jean-Baptiste Lemoyne (French, 1704–1778). Terracotta; overall: 63.5 x 33 cm (25 x 13 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, John L. Severance Fund 1952.566
title: Portrait of Melle de Vandeul
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creation date: possibly 1760
creation date earliest: 1760
creation date latest: 1760
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creditline: John L. Severance Fund
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culture: France, 18th century
technique: terracotta
department: European Painting and Sculpture
collection: Sculpture
type: Sculpture
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CREATORS
* Jean-Baptiste Lemoyne (French, 1704–1778) - artist
Jean-Baptiste Lemoyne was a nephew of Jean-Baptiste Lemoyne (1679-1731), a sculptor, and son on Jean Baptiste Lemoyne (1664-1755), a sculptor of note.
Jean-Baptiste Lemoyne II's training was completely French. He studies with his father and Robert Le Lorrain, whose career was so closely linked with the Rohan family. In 1725 he won first prize for sculpture which carried with it the privilege of studying at the French Academy in Rome. Because of domestic troubles, he could not take advantage of this, and his entire life, with the exception of brief sojourns was spent in Paris. He was received in the Academy in 1728 and ended by being made its director in 1768 in succession of the painter François Boucher.
He was engaged in some monumental projects, but his fame rests in his series of portrait busts. He belongs in the distinguished group which includes Houdon, Pigalle, Caffieri, and Pajou, the last being one of his pupils.
His portraits are characterized by directness and lack of affectation and combine with sympathetic understanding of the sitters and ubobtrusiveness and dignified idealism.
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measurements: Overall: 63.5 x 33 cm (25 x 13 in.)
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inscription: Signed underneath shoulder: J. B. Lemoyne (incised).
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS
title: Style, Truth and the Portrait
opening date: 1963-10-01T04:00:00
Style, Truth and the Portrait. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (October 1-November 19, 1963).
title: Traditions and Revisions: Themes from the History of Sculpture
opening date: 1975-09-24T04:00:00
Traditions and Revisions: Themes from the History of Sculpture. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (September 24-November 16, 1975).
title: Portraiture: The Image of the Individual
opening date: 1983-11-22T05:00:00
Portraiture: The Image of the Individual. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 22, 1983-January 22, 1984).
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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS
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PROVENANCE
Bouet, Paris, France
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César M. de Hauke, Paris, France, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art
date: -1952
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The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
date: 1952-
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RELATED WORKS
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CITATIONS
Saisselin, Rémy G. Style, Truth, and the Portrait. [Cleveland]: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1963.
page number: cat. no. 52
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The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1966. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1966.
page number: Reproduced: p. 136
url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1966/page/n160
Cleveland Museum of Art. Selected Works: Cleveland Museum of Art. 1967.
page number: no. 180
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The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1969. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1969.
page number: Reproduced: p. 136
url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1969/page/n160
Hawley, Henry. “Sculptures by Jules Dalou, Henry Cros, and Medardo Rosso.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 58, no. 7 (1971).
page number: p. 203, fig. 4
url: https://www.jstor.org/stable/25152386
Cleveland Museum of Art, Gabriel P. Weisberg, and H. W. Janson. Traditions and Revisions: Themes from the History of Sculpture. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1975.
page number: cat. no. 58
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The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978.
page number: Reproduced: p. 182
url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n202
“Part II. Annual Report Issue for the Year 1952.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 40, no. 6 (1953).
page number: pp. 135-6
url: https://www.jstor.org/stable/25141894
Ditner, David Charles. Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century European Sculpture in the Cleveland Museum of Art. 1986.
page number: p. 189
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Tortora, Phyllis G., and Keith Eubank. A Survey of Historic Costume: A History of Western Dress. New York: Fairchild Publications, 1994.
page number: p. 198, fig. 11.17
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Grison, Marie-Noelle. "A Newly Discovered Bust of a Woman by Jean-Baptiste Lemoyne." The Burlington Magazine 157, no. 1342 (January 2015).
page number: Mentioned: p. 12; Reproduced: fig. 11
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IMAGES
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