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(b Paris, 1712; d Paris, Aug 18, 1785). French pastellist and sculptor, probably great-nephew of Alexis Loir I. He was first recorded in Rome in 1739, when Pier Leone Ghezzi drew his portrait (Rome, Vatican, Biblioteca Apostolica). In 1746 he was approved (agréé) by the Académie Royale de Peinture et de Sculpture in Paris, presenting pastel portraits and two sculptures—a bust of Carle Vanloo (untraced) and a terracotta statuette of Marsyas (Paris, Louvre). He exhibited pastel portraits at the Salons of 1747, 1748 and 1759 but did not again exhibit sculpture until 1785, when he sent to the Salon a bust of Jean de Jullienne (1746; untraced). That Alexis Loir III counted so celebrated a collector and connoisseur as Jullienne among his patrons suggests that he was highly thought of by his contemporaries. The fact that so little is known of his life and work is in part explained by the long periods he spent outside Paris. In ...