François Le Moyne (1688-1737) - New Findings and Legacy. Catalogue raisonné

For the first time in Le Moyne’s connoisseurship, the new publication of 130 paintings and 250 drawings and pastels, most of them reproduced in colour and with spectacular detail, has been integrated with a long list of his lost easel works, described in auction catalogues or documented collections.

In this revised and enriched study, the artist’s varied and opulent career and his role as creator of a more seductive ideal of female nudity have been discussed in greater details depicting Le Moyne as the historical and academic artist, the original creator of gallant mythologies, the highly skilled and sensitive colorist and draftsman, painter of religious subjects, landscapes, overdoors and large-scale ceiling paintings, genre motifs and portraits, and at last as the man who committed the most dramatic suicide in the entire history of the world art.

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Introduction and acknowledgments

François Le Moyne (1688-1737)
Life and career

CATALOGUE OF DRAWINGS

CATALOGUE OF PAINTINGS

CRITICAL APPARATUS
Appendix
Selected bibliography
and frequently utilized sources
Index of names and works