The Fear of Love
Medium
Terracotta
Dimensions
36.5 × 19.1 cm (14 3/8 × 7 1/2 in.)
Classification
statuette
Department
Painting and Sculpture of Europe
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
11143
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...