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| Keywords: Jean-Baptiste Lemoyne, the younger - Bust of Fontenelle - Walters 27503 - Three Quarter.jpg Lemoyne sculpted several busts of the celebrated French writer Bernard Le Bouvier Fontenelle 1657-1757 the earliest a terracotta was shown at the Paris Salon of 1748; another was made for the Academy of Sciences in Paris; and a third was offered in 1759 to the town of Rouen the writer's birthplace It has been suggested that even though this marble bears Lemoyne's signature it was actually sculpted after one of Lemoyne's originals by Louis Simon Boizot 1743-1809 mid-late 18th century marble cm 67 3 accession number 27 503 15617 Dr and Mrs Henry Barton Jacobs Baltimore date and mode of acquisition unknown Jacobs Sale Baltimore December 12 1940 no 1084 Walters Art Museum 1940 by purchase Museum purchase 1940 Signature J B Lemoyne fc ; Transcription On front Fontenelle né à rouen en 1657 mort à paris en 1757 place of origin Paris France Walters Art Museum license Jean-Baptiste Lemoyne the Younger Media contributed by the Walters Art Museum needs category review Sculptures in the Walters Art Museum Louis-Simon Boizot | ||||
