A Companion of Diana
Jean-Louis Lemoyne
1710-1724
Medium
marble
Dimensions
overall: 182.5 x 76.5 x 57.8 cm (71 7/8 x 30 1/8 x 22 3/4 in.)
Classification
Sculpture
Department
CSD
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Widener Collection
Accession Number
1942.9.133
Rights
Public Domain
About the Artist
Jean-Louis Lemoyne · 1665–1755
**Jean-Louis Lemoyne (1665–1755)** was a French sculptor active in Paris during the late Baroque and early Rococo periods. Born into a family of artists—his father was a painter and his grandfather a sculptor who contributed to the Louvre façade—he trained under the prominent sculptor Antoine Coysevox. Lemoyne won the Prix de Rome in 1687 with a relief of the Flood but did not travel to Italy. In...