Jacques Antoine Marie Lemoine (1751–1824)

• Was a French artist.
• Lemoine was born in Rouen.

• He began study at the École des Beaux-Arts in Rouen.

• Having moved to Paris by 1772, he studied under Jean-Jacques Lagrenée and Maurice-Quentin de la Tour.

• Early in his career often portrayed actors, singers, and musicians, using pastels and chalk.

• He also worked in oil, watercolor, and porcelain.

• In 1783, Lemoine married the artist Agathe-Françoise Bonvallet.

• He began his work as a miniaturist in the mid-1780s.

• He collected texts on geometry and perspective in relation to design and painting.

• He returned to Rouen, where he was appointed professor of drawing at the École de Marine in 1799.

• After 1798, he produced few works, but in Paris continued to exhibit at the Salons through 1817.

• He died at his home in Paris, and bequeathed his manuscript collection to the state.

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