Diana and Actaeon

Details

Louis-Jean-François Lagrenée (Paris 1724-1805)
Diana and Actaeon
signed and dated 'DeLagrenee 1757·' (lower right)
oil on canvas, originally shaped, the corners made-up into a rectangle
49½ x 56½ in. (125.7 x 143.6 cm.)
with brushmark '550/3' (on the reverse)

Provenance

Madame de Montmartel (see Sandoz, loc. cit.).

Literature

M. Sandoz, Les Lagrenée, Paris, 1983, I, p. 168, no. 23, the drawing illustrated (see infra).

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Lot Essay

Dated 1757, this work was painted just two years after Lagrenée had been received into the Académie Royale with his Rape of Dejaneira (Paris, Louvre). The picture apparently formed part of a series of three overdoors, the others (present whereabouts unkown) depicting Venus at her Toilet and Galatea. A preparatory drawing by the artist is illustrated in Sandoz (op. cit., no. 25 B, fig. 1). With its cartouche-shaped design, it indicates the orignal shape of the present canvas that has been later made up into a rectangle.

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