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Apollo

Artist Jean-Baptiste Lemoyne the Younger (French, 1704-1778)

Place of OriginFrance

Dateabout 1770-1777

DimensionsH: 25 in. (63.5 cm); W: 22 1/4 in. (56.5 cm); Depth: 15 in. (38 cm)

MediumGilt lead

ClassificationSculpture

Credit LineGift of Mr. and Mrs. Edward H. Alexander

Object number

1974.1

Not on View

Published References

Lami, S., Dictionnarie des Sculpteurs de l'Ecole Francais au 18e Siecle, 1911, vol. II, p. 69.

Réau, Louis, "Une Statue de Pigalle Retrouvée," La Revue de L'art Ancien et Moderne, vol. XXXIX, 1921, p. 62.

Réau, Louis Les Lemoyne, Paris, 1927, pp. 140, no. 24 (Apollo), no. 25 (Minerva), 154. Also cf. pp. 53-55.

"Public Museum News," Art Journal, vol. 33, no. 4, Summer 1974, p. 366.

"Treasures for Toledo," Toledo Museum of Art, Museum News, New Series, vol. 19, nos. 2 & 3, 1976, p. 67, repr.

Bailey, Colin B., "The Abbe Terray: An Enlightened Patron of Modern Scultpure," Burlington, vol. 135, no. 1079, Feb. 1993, p. 128, no. 46, fig. 82.

Marin-David, Sophie, "Jean-Baptiste D'Huez, sculpteur du roi (1729-1793)," Bulletin de la Société de l'Histoire de l'Art Français, 1999, pp. 119, 130-131.

Faroult, Guillaume, L'antiquité Revée: Innovations Et Résistances Au XVIIIe Siècle, Paris, Louvre éditions 2010, p. 278-279, fig. 132 (col.) (not in exhibition).