Bust of Fontenelle
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 Ro...
Sculpture
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15617
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sculpture
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normalized
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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.
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en
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1
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import
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| iiifBase | https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL7_27.503_3Qtr_BW.jpg |
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| sourceUrl | https://purl.thewalters.org/art/27.503 |
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marble
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