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In 1735 the Comtesse had commissioned Lemoyne to execute a monument to her father, which should include his bust by François Girardon and a statue of herself mourning his death. Completed in 1744 it was placed in the church of the Jacobins, Rue St Honoré, Paris. At the Revolution it was dismembered and partly destroyed, but the Girardon bust was set up later on a bracket in the church of St Roch and much later the bust of the Comtesse was set up alongside the bust of her father.\r\n\r\nIt has been suggested (Réau, <u>Les Lemoyne</u>, 1927) that this V&A bust was the preparatory sketch for the bust exhibited at the Salon, presumably because of its sketchy appearance, but it might perhaps be the 1738 Salon bust itself. Lemoyne excelled in portrait busts in marble and terracotta and this is a particularly lively example of his work.","physicalDescription":"The head of this terracotta bust is turned slightly to the subject's left. She wears a veil over her hair. 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Bought at Sotheby's on July 3rd, 1959, lot 63 (Property of a Gentleman).\n\nLemoyne excelled in portrait busts in marble and terracotta and this is a particularly lively example of his work.","historicalContext":"","briefDescription":"Bust, sketch-model, terracotta, of Comtesse de Feuquières, by Jean-Baptiste Lemoyne, France, ca. 1738","bibliographicReferences":[{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"","free":"T.Hodgkinson, French 18th century Portrait Sculpture in the V&A Museum, in: <u>V&A Yearbook 3</u>, 1972, p.100"}],"production":"","productionType":{"text":"","id":""},"contentDescription":"","contentPlaces":[],"associatedPlaces":[],"contentPerson":[{"text":"de Feuquieres (Comtesse)","id":"N15839"}],"associatedPerson":[],"contentOrganisations":[],"associatedOrganisations":[],"contentPeople":[],"associatedPeople":[],"contentEvents":[],"associatedEvents":[],"contentOthers":[],"contentConcepts":[],"contentLiteraryRefs":[],"galleryLabels":[{"text":"The Comtesse de Feuquières\r\nAbout 1738\n\nThis bust was a study for a full-length portrait of the Comtesse de Feuquières. She commissioned it for a monument to her father, Pierre Mignard, court painter to Louis XIV. As she requested, it portrays her as a grieving daughter. She sheds a tear of grief from her left eye, her hair is covered by a veil, and she is probably wearing mourning dress.\r\n\r\nFrance (Paris)\r\nBy Jean-Baptiste Lemoyne\r\nTerracotta\r\n\r\nThe <i>Encyclopédie</i>, Vol. 4, 1754:\n\r\n<i>‘Mourning, a distinctive garment worn to express one’s sadness in times of misfortune, most commonly for funeral ceremonies. Each nation has had its reason for choosing a certain colour to identify the mourner. 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