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François Lemoyne

1688 - 1737

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François Lemoyne or François Le Moine (French: [fʁɑ̃swa ləmwan]; 1688 – 4 June 1737) was a French rococo painter. He was a winner of the Prix de Rome, professor of the Académie royale de peinture et de sculpture, and Premier peintre du Roi to Louis XV. He was tutor to Charles-Joseph Natoire and François Boucher. Throughout his career, Lemoyne sought to be seen as the heir to Charles Le Brun and the leading painter of his generation, titles also vied for by his rival Jean-François de Troy (1679–1752). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of François Lemoyne has received more than 95,985 page views. His biography is available in 21 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 19 in 2019). François Lemoyne is the 678th most popular painter (up from 808th in 2019), the 1,996th most popular biography from France (up from 2,380th in 2019) and the 131st most popular French Painter.

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Among PAINTERS

Among painters, François Lemoyne ranks 678 out of 2,023. Before him are Thomas Eakins, Pieter van Laer, Adrien Manglard, Giovanni Battista Gaulli, Karl von Piloty, and Maurycy Gottlieb. After him are Arnold Houbraken, Max Pechstein, Benvenuto Tisi, Charlotte Salomon, Santiago Rusiñol, and Piero del Pollaiolo.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1688, François Lemoyne ranks 16. Before him are Giuseppe Castiglione, Pierre de Marivaux, Stede Bonnet, Domenico Zipoli, Joseph-Nicolas Delisle, and Antonio Corradini. After him are Marie Victoire de Noailles, Landgravine Marie Louise of Hesse-Kassel, Ernest Augustus I, Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach, Johann Friedrich Fasch, Jai Singh II, and Willem 's Gravesande. Among people deceased in 1737, François Lemoyne ranks 8. Before him are Caroline of Ansbach, Gian Gastone de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany, Emperor Nakamikado, Louis Alexandre, Count of Toulouse, Charles Alexander, Duke of Württemberg, and Rinaldo d'Este. After him are James Louis Sobieski, Vakhtang VI of Kartli, Ferdinand Kettler, Guido Starhemberg, Lobsang Yeshe, 5th Panchen Lama, and Alessandro Galilei.

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In France

Among people born in France, François Lemoyne ranks 1,996 out of 6,770. Before him are Jean Goujon (1510), Jean II Le Maingre (1366), Robert Pires (1973), Odo III, Duke of Burgundy (1166), Roger Pingeon (1940), and François de la Chaise (1624). After him are William Iron Arm (1010), Eugène Tisserant (1884), Victor-François, 2nd duc de Broglie (1718), Maurice Papon (1910), Jean-Baptiste Alphonse Karr (1808), and Antoine Busnois (1430).

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Among PAINTERS In France

Among painters born in France, François Lemoyne ranks 131. Before him are Valentin de Boulogne (1591), Charles-André van Loo (1705), François-Édouard Picot (1786), Nicolas Lancret (1690), Pierre Auguste Cot (1837), and Adrien Manglard (1695). After him are Jan Asselijn (1610), Joseph-Marie Vien (1716), Paul Gavarni (1804), Amédée Ozenfant (1886), Eugène Carrière (1849), and Victorine Meurent (1844).

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