LEMOYNE, Jean-Baptiste II
(b. 1704, Paris, d. 1778, Paris)

Comte de la Tour d'Auvergne

1765
Marble, height 71 cm
Liebighaus, Frankfurt

This bust is notable for the ambiguity it incorporates between the hardness of the representation of the eyes on the one hand and the almost picturesque, soft aspect of the drapery and fleshy facial features on the other.

This portrait in the French Rococo manner appears to be entirely in accord with the highly educated and elegant lifestyle of French aristocratic life in the eighteenth century.