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Lemoyne executed four tombs of which two are completely destroyed. The Crébillon tomb, probably the least successful, is now in the museum at Dijon. The earliest commissioned - and almost certainly the finest - survives in a mutilated state in Saint-Roch: the monument to Mignard, which was originally set up in the nearby Jacobins' church. This was commissioned in 1735 by the painter's daughter, Madame de Feuquières. Her first project, of long before, had been for a mourning figure of Painting with various trophies, surrounding the bust of Mignard executed by Girardon. By the time she came to commission Lemoyne, she had decided to substitute herself as the mourning figure; the tomb thus became her monument as well, though its central point remained Girardon's bust of her father. That portion of the ensemble survives.
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