- Defernex, Jean Baptiste
- (c1729-5/1783 Paris) (France); aka Fernex, Jean-Baptiste Portrait sculptor. Trained while working in the Sevres porcelain works. He seems to have operated largely outside the official academic art establishment.Reproductions: Satyr and nymphe; terracotta; Klinger, 1986: plate XXV / Klinger, 1982b: plate XXV [C]. [Satyr and nymph copulating]; terracotta; Klinger, 1982b: p. 110 .[b]Source: Benezit, vol. 4: pp. 564-565; DoA vol. 8: p. 617; ThB VIII 1913: p. 536.
Dictionary of erotic artists: painters, sculptors, printmakers, graphic designers and illustrators. Eugene C. Burt.