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    Museum collections / Art Institute of Chicago
    Model for a Statue of Louis XV by Jean-Baptiste Lemoyne II
    Jean-Baptiste Lemoyne II. Model for a Statue of Louis XV, 1746–48. The Art Institute of Chicago. Public domain (CC0).
    AT-00001847

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    Model for a Statue of Louis XV

    by Jean-Baptiste Lemoyne II

    Exhibition history

    Chicago, Art Institute of Chicago, "Selected Works of 18th Century Art," 24 January - 28 March ,1976, cat. 131. Chicago, Art Institute of Chicago, "European Portraits, 1600-1900," 8 July - 11 September, 1978, cat. 39.

    Publications

    Charles Maumené and Louis d’Harcourt, "Icongraphie des Rois de France," Archives de l’Art Francais 16 (Paris, 1932), p. 442, no. 423. Rennes, Musée des Beaux-Arts, L'ouvre du mois. Lemoyne: Louis XV, project de statue pour l’Hôtel de Ville de Rennes (Rennes, 1981), p. 4, fig. 3. Ian Wardropper, "Adam to Clodion: Four French Terracotta Sculptures," Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies 11, 1 (1984), pp. 29-33, 36-37, figs. 10, 11. Paris, Musée du Louvre, Nouvelles acquisitions du départment des Sculptures, 1988-1991 (Paris, 1992), under no. 22, pp. 76-78,, fig. 22c.

    Quick Overview

    Artist
    Jean-Baptiste Lemoyne II (French, 1704–1778)
    Date
    1746–48
    Medium
    Terracotta
    Dimensions
    72 × 41.7 × 40.6 cm (28 1/4 × 16 3/8 × 16 in.)
    Type
    Sculpture
    Classification
    statuette
    Style
    18th Century
    Place
    France
    Department
    Painting and Sculpture of Europe
    Credit line
    Kate S. Buckingham Endowment
    Accession no.
    1974.15

    Provenance

    Created as one of four modellos for a planned monument of Louis XV at the Hôtel de Ville, Rennes, 1746/48; estate of the artist [according to letter from Heim Gallery in curatorial file]. Collection of Jules Strauss, Paris, by 1932 [see Maumené and d’Harcourt 1932]; sold, his estate sale, Galerie Charpentier, Paris, May 27, 1949, lot 86. Comtesse de Rochefort, Paris [according to letter from A.S. Ciechanowiecki to John Keefe, October 10, 1975, in curatorial file]. Private Collection, London [according to sources cited above]. Etablissement Rustique, Vaduz, Liechtenstein [according to Stock Book, 1970-85, Heim Gallery Records, Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles, copy in curatorial file]; Heim Gallery, London, by 1974; sold to the Art Institute, 1974.

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