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François-Frédéric LEMOT (Lyon, 1771 - Paris, 1827) Portrait of Charles-Joseph Panckoucke (1736-1798), publisher, 1822 Marble bust Titled, signed and dated on the front of the base: "C.J. PANCKOUCKE / Editor of the Methodical Encyclopedia / F.F. LEMOT Fecit 1822 Dedicated by the artist on the right base: " F.F. LEMOT, / Member of the Institute, / TO HIS FRIEND ". Dedicated by the model's son on the base at left: "C.L.F. PANCKOUCKE, / Editor of the French Victories, / TO HIS FATHER." H. 59 cm; W. 34 cm; D. 29.8 cm Provenance: Given by the artist to Charles-Louis-Fleury Panckoucke (1780-1844), son of the model, placed in the salon of the family mansion, Paris. Bibliography: - C.-L.-F. Panckoucke, Collection d'antiquités égyptiennes, grecques et romaines, d'objets d'art du XVe siècle, vases et coupes grecs, manuscrits, tableaux et gravures... réunis et classés par C.-L.-F. Panckoucke [Collection of Egyptian, Greek, and Roman antiquities, 15th-century art objects, Greek vases and cups, manuscripts, paintings, and engravings... gathered and classified by C.-L.-F. Panckoucke], Paris, 1841, p. 12 and note 1. - C.-L.-F. Panckoucke, Collection d'antiquités et d'objets d'art du XVe siècle recueillis en divers voyages et classés par ordre de temps et de lieux par C.-L.-F. Panckoucke, Paris, 1841, p. 2. - F. Lissarrague, Entre livre et collection, la collection Panckoucke, in. L'Anticomanie : la collection d'antiquités aux 18e et 19e siècles, colloque international de Montpellier-Lattes ; 9-12 juin 1988, Paris, 1992, p. 224. Lemot was awarded the Prix de Rome in 1790 and received important commissions during the Revolution, notably for the bas-reliefs of the tribune of the Conseil des Cinq-cents (now the Assemblée Nationale), but also during the Empire, for the pediment of the colonnade of the Palais du Louvre, and during the Restoration, for the equestrian statues of Henri IV for the Pont Neuf or the one of Louis XIV, place Bellecour in Lyon. In 1805 he bought a property, the Garenne Lemot, which he transformed into a neo-Palladian villa, punctuating the park with antique statues and factories, thus recreating a corner of Italy in the middle of the Nantes countryside. A key figure in the world of publishing during the Enlightenment, Charles-Joseph Panckoucke was the official bookseller and publisher of the Royal Printing Office and the Royal Academy of Sciences. An intimate of the great philosophers, he published Diderot and d'Alembert's Encyclopedia. His bust was made in 1822 by his friend François Frédéric Lemot in the purest neo-classical style.
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François-Frédéric LEMOT (Lyon, 1771 - Paris, 1827) Portrait of Charles-Joseph Panckoucke (1736-1798), publisher, 1822 Marble bust Titled, signed and dated on the front of the base: "C.J. PANCKOUCKE / Editor of the Methodical Encyclopedia / F.F. LEMOT Fecit 1822 Dedicated by the artist on the right base: " F.F. LEMOT, / Member of the Institute, / TO HIS FRIEND ". Dedicated by the model's son on the base at left: "C.L.F. PANCKOUCKE, / Editor of the French Victories, / TO HIS FATHER." H. 59 cm; W. 34 cm; D. 29.8 cm Provenance: Given by the artist to Charles-Louis-Fleury Panckoucke (1780-1844), son of the model, placed in the salon of the family mansion, Paris. Bibliography: - C.-L.-F. Panckoucke, Collection d'antiquités égyptiennes, grecques et romaines, d'objets d'art du XVe siècle, vases et coupes grecs, manuscrits, tableaux et gravures... réunis et classés par C.-L.-F. Panckoucke [Collection of Egyptian, Greek, and Roman antiquities, 15th-century art objects, Greek vases and cups, manuscripts, paintings, and engravings... gathered and classified by C.-L.-F. Panckoucke], Paris, 1841, p. 12 and note 1. - C.-L.-F. Panckoucke, Collection d'antiquités et d'objets d'art du XVe siècle recueillis en divers voyages et classés par ordre de temps et de lieux par C.-L.-F. Panckoucke, Paris, 1841, p. 2. - F. Lissarrague, Entre livre et collection, la collection Panckoucke, in. L'Anticomanie : la collection d'antiquités aux 18e et 19e siècles, colloque international de Montpellier-Lattes ; 9-12 juin 1988, Paris, 1992, p. 224. Lemot was awarded the Prix de Rome in 1790 and received important commissions during the Revolution, notably for the bas-reliefs of the tribune of the Conseil des Cinq-cents (now the Assemblée Nationale), but also during the Empire, for the pediment of the colonnade of the Palais du Louvre, and during the Restoration, for the equestrian statues of Henri IV for the Pont Neuf or the one of Louis XIV, place Bellecour in Lyon. In 1805 he bought a property, the Garenne Lemot, which he transformed into a neo-Palladian villa, punctuating the park with antique statues and factories, thus recreating a corner of Italy in the middle of the Nantes countryside. A key figure in the world of publishing during the Enlightenment, Charles-Joseph Panckoucke was the official bookseller and publisher of the Royal Printing Office and the Royal Academy of Sciences. An intimate of the great philosophers, he published Diderot and d'Alembert's Encyclopedia. His bust was made in 1822 by his friend François Frédéric Lemot in the purest neo-classical style.
