François Lemoyne or François Le Moine (1688 –1737)

• Was a French rococo painter.
• He was a winner of the Prix de Rome, professor of the Académie de peinture et de sculpture, and Premier peintre du Roi to Louis XV.
• He was tutor to Charles-Joseph Natoire and François Boucher.
• Lemoyne's work and talent, notably plied in Versailles, earned him the esteem of his contemporaries and the name of the "new Le Brun".
• He collaborated with other artists of the era, including Nonotte, Gilles Dutilleul, Charles de La Fosse, and Coypel.
• He took his own life in 1737, at the height of his career.
• Lemoyne committed suicide in Paris.
• He chose death by sword, stabbing himself a total of nine times in the chest and throat.
• This was the day after completing the painting Time Saving Truth from Falsehood and Envy for his friend and patron François Berger.
• With his death, the fashion of large allegorical ceilings disappeared.
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