François Lemoyne

See also: Lemoyne

François Lemoyne or François the Monk , born in 1688 with Paris where he died the June 4th 1737, was a painter Rococo French.

At 13 years, in 1701, it enters to the royal Académie of painting and sculpture. It studies there under the direction of Louis Galloche and remains there until 1713. Received as members of the Academy in 1718, it is elected there professor in 1733. Its work and its talent, in particular exerted with Versailles make of him the “new Brown the”. He works with other artists of the time like Donat Nonotte, Gilles Dutilleul, Charles of the Pit or Coypel. But the excess of work and the death of his wife make it insane. It commits suicide in 1737. With him the fashion disappears from the large allegorical ceilings.

Works

Louis XV giving Peace to Europe , Salon of the Peace of Versailles (1727)
Plafond of the Living room of Hercules to Versailles (1736)
Voûte of the church Saint-Thomas-in Aquin
Diana the Huntress
the Nymphs
Narcisse
It also worked with Saint-Sulpice and Saint-Germain-of-Meadows

Sources

Xavier Salmon, François Lemoyne in Versailles , Gourcuff, Paris 2001, ISBN 2-909838-57-9
Course on the painting of the 18th century, 2006, University Nancy 2

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