Louis-Jean-François Lagrenée (Paris 1724-1805)

The Education of Cupid

Details

Louis-Jean-François Lagrenée (Paris 1724-1805)
The Education of Cupid
signed and dated 'L. Lagrenee. / 1777.' (upper left)
oil on panel
7 ½ x 6 3/8 in. (19.1 x 15.9 cm.)

Provenance

Commissioned by Hyacinthe-Hughes Timoléon de Cossé, Duc and Marquis de Cosse (1746-1813), by whom given to his son
Augustin Marie Paul Petronville Timoléon de Cossé, the Chevalier de Cosse, and later Duc and Marquis de Cosse (1775-1848).
Private Collection, Ghent.

Literature

Etat des tableaux faits par Monsieur Lagrenée depuis son retour de Rome, 1779, p. 273, no. 274;
Explication des Peintures, Sculptures, et Gravures de Messieurs de l’Académie Royale, Paris, 1779, p. 3, no. 7
'Lettre d'un Italien sur l'exposition de 1779', Mercure de France [manuscript].
E. and J. de Goncourt, Portraits intimes du dix-huitième siécle, Paris, 1878, p. 349, no. 274.
M. Sandoz, Les Lagrenée, Paris, 1983, I, pp. 122, 252, 368, 369, 389, no. 304, as 'location unknown’.

Exhibited

Paris, Salon, 1779, no. 7.

Engraved

Jacques Bouillard (1744-1806), 1783.

Sale room notice

Please note that the medium of this lot should read: 'oil on panel'.

Lot Essay

This panel is one in a series of four paintings that were commissioned by Hyacinthe-Hugues Timoleon, Marquis De Cossé. Along with his brother, Francois-Arthus-Hyacinthe Timoleon, Chevalier de Cossé, the Marquis was an important patron of the Arts in Paris during the second quarter of the 18th century. Jacques Bouillard produced engravings dedicated to the Marquis de Cossé in 1783 (fig. 1).

We are grateful to Alastair Laing for confirming the attribution on the basis of a photograph and for identifying the picture in the artist’s list of his paintings as well as noting that it was among those sent to the Salon of 1779 by the Marquis de Cossé.

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