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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 89,867 page views. His biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2019). François Lemoyne is the 809th most popular painter (up from 928th in 2019), the 2,388th most popular biography from France (up from 2,636th in 2019) and the 144th most popular French Painter.

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Among PAINTERS

Among painters, François Lemoyne ranks 809 out of 1,421. Before him are Frans Pourbus the Younger, Herbert James Draper, Bartolomeo Vivarini, Carl Andre, Bramantino, and Jan Miense Molenaer. After him are Wu Daozi, Jacques Villon, Nicolae Grigorescu, Juan de Valdés Leal, Gutzon Borglum, and Jan Mandijn.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1688, François Lemoyne ranks 20. Before him are Joseph-Nicolas Delisle, Antonio Corradini, Landgravine Marie Louise of Hesse-Kassel, Marie Victoire de Noailles, Johann Friedrich Fasch, and Ernest Augustus I, Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach. After him are Willem 's Gravesande, Jai Singh II, George Frederick Charles, Margrave of Brandenburg-Bayreuth, and Mikhail Zemtsov. Among people deceased in 1737, François Lemoyne ranks 10. Before him are Gian Gastone de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany, Louis Alexandre, Count of Toulouse, Charles Alexander, Duke of Württemberg, Rinaldo d'Este, James Louis Sobieski, and Ferdinand Kettler. After him are Vakhtang VI of Kartli, Lobsang Yeshe, 5th Panchen Lama, and Guido Starhemberg.

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In France

Among people born in France, François Lemoyne ranks 2,388 out of 6,011. Before him are Odo de St Amand (1110), Jean-Marie Collot d'Herbois (1749), Anne Henriette of Bavaria (1648), Charles-Eugène Delaunay (1816), Eugène Marin Labiche (1815), and Camille Doncieux (1847). After him are Jacques Villon (1875), John I, Duke of Brittany (1217), Margaret of Foix (1453), Adam Philippe, Comte de Custine (1740), Albert Gleizes (1881), and Charles Pathé (1863).

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Among PAINTERS In France

Among painters born in France, François Lemoyne ranks 144. Before him are Roman Opałka (1931), Sébastien Bourdon (1616), Marie-Guillemine Benoist (1768), Nicolas Lancret (1690), Joseph-Marie Vien (1716), and Eugène Fromentin (1820). After him are Jacques Villon (1875), Ford Madox Brown (1821), Georges Mathieu (1921), Gustave Boulanger (1824), Marie Bracquemond (1840), and Adolphe Monticelli (1824).

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