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Jean-Baptist Defernex (1729–1783) was a French artist best known for his portrait busts, most often of women. Little is known of his early training, but he started as a modeler at the Sèvres factory. He was sculptor to the Duc d'Orléans and worked on gilded lead statue groups of children at the Palais-Royal. He was not a member of the Royal Academy, but rather that of St. Luke. He had a school for sculpture and drawing; Louis Jean-Jacques Durameau studied there. Defernex received no official commissions, and his art seems to have been regarded as rather unfashionable. His portrait busts have been compared to those of Jean-Baptiste Greuze and described as "honest, unidealized, quite free from gallant flattery": "All the graces and tender amorous atmosphere that floated about Madame Favart," the singer and actress who was the subject of a 1762 work, "seem dispelled by his convincingly truthful bust of her."〔Michael Levey, ''Painting and Sculpture in France 1700–1789'' (Yale University Press, 1993), p. 153 ( online. )〕 Other works include: * ''Distressed Spirit'' (1768), a marble fragment of a funeral monument that was destroyed during the French Revolution; * plaster bust of Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon (1772);〔Monique Barbier, "Abbreviated Chronology of Houdon's Life and Work," in ''Jean-Antoine Houdon: Sculptor of the Enlightenment'' University of Chicago Press, p. 177 (online. )〕 * ''The Milkmaid'' (1754/60), an example of his Sèvres porcelain, modeled after a work created by François Boucher for Madame de Pompadour's dairy at Crécy. ==References== 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Jean-Baptiste Defernex」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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