Louis-Jean-François Lagrenée (1725-1805)

THE PROPERTY OF A GENTLEMAN

Details

Louis-Jean-François Lagrenée (1725-1805)

Mothers and Children in classical Interiors

both signed 'Lagrenée'
oil on canvas
9¾ x 14¼in. (24.8 x 36.2cm.)a pair (2)

Literature

M. Sandoz, Les Lagrenée, Paris, 1983, p. 251, nos. 296-7.

Exhibited

(Possibly) Salon 1777, no. 6, as 'deux petits tableaux de femmes et d'enfants'.

Lot Essay

The present pair of pictures may possibly be identified with those exhibited by Louis Lagrenée at the Salon of 1777. They were sketched by Gabriel de Saint-Aubin in his copy of the Salon Livret (M. Sandoz, op. cit., pp. 251 and 291-2, pls. XLV and XLVIII).

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