# Comte de la Tour d'Auvergne [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [LEMOYNE, Jean-Baptiste II]() - Date: 1701-1750 - Technique: Marble, height 71 cm ## Commentary This bust is notable for the ambiguity it incorporates between the hardness of the representation of the eyes on the one hand and the almost picturesque, soft aspect of the drapery and fleshy facial features on the other. This portrait in the French Rococo manner appears to be entirely in accord with the highly educated and elegant lifestyle of French aristocratic life in the eighteenth century. ## Related artworks - [Bust of Arnaud de la Briffe]() - [Bust of Mademoiselle Clairon]() - [Bust of Maupeou]() - [Bust of Montesquieu]() - [Bust of Réaumur]() - [Louis XV \(detail\)]() - [Louis XV]() - [Louis XV]() - [Mademoiselle Dangeville as Thalia]() - [Monument to Mignard]() - [The Baptism of Christ]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()