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(2) Jean-Baptiste Lemoyne (i)
(b Paris, bapt 14 Sept 1679; d Paris, 20 Oct 1731). Brother of (1) Jean-Louis Lemoyne. He was approved (agréé) by the Académie Royale in 1710 on presentation of a plaster model of Andromeda Chained to the Rock (untraced, see Souchal, ii, p. 358) and was received (reçu) as a full member in 1715 with the statuette of the Fall of Hippolytus (marble; Paris, Louvre), an unusual subject probably inspired by Racine’s play Phèdre). It is a bravura piece that demonstrates mastery of technique but no distinguishing personality. He later roughed out the marble statue of St John the Baptist, which was part of the group of the Baptism of Christ (Paris, St Roch) intended for the high altar of St Jean-en-Grève, Paris, and finished by his nephew (3) Jean-Baptiste Lemoyne (ii).
Part of the Lemoyne family
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