Louis-Jean-Francois Lagrenee
Paintings
Rinaldo and Armida
Mars and Venus. Allegory of Peace
Venus and Nymphs Bathing
Hercules and Omphale
Pygmalion and his Statue
Pygmalion and Galatea
Alexander Consulting the Oracle of Apollo
Penelope Reading a Letter from Odysseus
An Allegory of Music. Orpheus, Pluto and Euridices
An Allegory of Music. Orpheus, Pluto and Euridices
Diana and Endymion
Hercules and Omphale
Mercury Herse and Aglauros
The Centaur Chiron instructing Achilles
The Union of Painting and Sculpture
Allegory on the Death of the Dauphin
The Abduction of Deianeira by the Centaur Nessus
The Rape of Europa
Amor and Psyche
Echo and Narcissus
Ceres Teaching Agriculture to King TriptolemusHercules and Omphale
Female nude kneeling, seen from the back
Louis-Jean-Francois Lagrenee
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Venus and Nymphs Bathing
Louis-Jean-François Lagrenée (a.k.a. Lagrenée the elder) (December 30, 1724 – June 19, 1805) was a French rococo painter and student of Carle van Loo. He won the Grand Prix de Rome for painting in 1749 and was elected a member of the Académie royale de peinture et de sculpture in 1755. His younger brother Jean-Jacques Lagrenée (a.k.a. Lagrenée the younger) was also a painter.
Lagrenée's notable career appointments included:
Court painter to Elizabeth, Empress of Russia.
Director of the Academy of Arts in Saint Petersburg.
Director of the French Academy in Rome.
Professor-rector of the Académie royale de peinture et de sculpture.
Honorary director-curator of the Louvre museum.
In July 1804, Napoleon I conferred upon Lagrenée the rank of chevalier (Knight) of the Legion d'Honneur.[1]
Lagrenée died in June 1805, aged 80 years and 6 months.
Early life
The Abduction of Deianeira by the Centaur Nessus, (1755).
Lagrenée was born in Paris on the 30 December 1724 and from an early age he showed promise in drawing and painting.[2] During his youth, master painter members of the French Royal Academy offered a rolling programme of courses, open to the public (for a small fee), in life drawing and the principles and techniques of art. These courses gave academy members a chance to identify and nurture six of the most gifted young students in any given year and offer them a place on a scheme known as the École royale des élèves protégés, a scheme which offered free tuition with a small stipend, for three years, preparing students for Prix de Rome competitions.[3] After being selected for and completing this three-year programme, under the tutelage of Carle van Loo, Lagrenée won the Grand Prix de Rome on his first attempt in 1749, with the painting Joseph interpreting the dreams of Pharaoh (now lost).
Study in Rome
The love of art comforts painting, over the ridiculous and venomous writings of her enemies, (1781).
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As a student at the French Academy in Rome, Lagrenée developed a "Formative if youthful fixation with Baroque painting".[4] Above all, Lagrenée was inspired by the Bolognese School , particularly by the work of Guido Reni (1575 - 1642) and Francesco Albani (1578 - 1660). Later in his career, Lagrenée acquired the epithet 'the French Albani' (l'Albane Francais).[5]
Academy membership
After
returning from Rome in 1753, Lagrenée set to work on a large painting -
The abduction of Dejaneira by the centaur Nessus (musée du Louvre) -
which, when finished in 1755, was the reception piece which earned him
membership of the Académie de peinture et de sculpture, by a unanimous
vote. By this time, Lagrenée was already considered something of a
celebrity.[6]
By royal appointment
St.Petersburg
Lagrenée's career blossomed in Paris, by completing many commissions
for eminent patrons and members of a flourishing new financial
community as well as submitting regular entries to Paris salon
exhibitions. His reputation caught the attention of Elizabeth Petrovna,
Empress of Russia, who, in 1760, appointed him to the office of the
director of the Academy at St. Petersburg and that of her principle
painter.[7]
Paris
After only
two years in Russia, Lagrenée returned to Paris to take up the
appointment of professor-rector of the Académie royale de peinture et
de sculpture.
Rome
Lagrenée
spent the years between 1781 and 1787 at the Villa Medici in Rome, in
his capacity as director of the French Academy (Académie de France à
Rome).
Paris
A final return to
Paris saw Lagrenée appointed to the position of honorary
curator-director (administration) of the Louvre museum, a position
which he held until his death in 1805.
Legion of Honour
Apelles falls in love with Campaspe; beloved of Alexander the great. (1772).
Lagrenée was made a Knight of the Legion of Honour (Legion d'honneur) on the 15th July 1804 by Napoleon I.[8]
Public records
On
Monday 10 July 1758, at the age of 33, Lagrenée married 16-year-old
Anne-Agathe Isnard. Fifty-five years later, on the 19 June 1805,
Lagrenée's death certificate recorded that they were still married.[9]
Works in Public Collections (non exhaustive)
Paintings
Paris, musée du Louvre : L'Enlèvement de Déjanire par le centaure
Nessus (1755), Mercure, Aglaure et Hersé (1767), Psyché surprend
l'Amour endormi (1768), La Mort de la Femme de Darius (1785), L'Amour
des Arts console la Peinture des écrits ridicules et envenimés de ses
ennemis
Stockholm, Nationalmuseum : Mars et Vénus surpris par Vulcain (1768)
Musée national des châteaux de Versailles et de Trianon : La Moisson - Cérès et l'Agriculture (vers 1770)
Los Angeles, Getty Center : Vénus et Mars, une allégorie de la Paix (1770)
Musée des beaux-arts de Quimper : Esther et Assuérus (1775-1780)
Musée des arts décoratifs de Paris : Jupiter transformé en taureau enlève Europe, Thétys reçoit Apollon
Detroit Institute of Arts : Pygmalion and Galatea, (1781)
Palace of Fontainebleau : The death of the Dauphin, surrounded by his family, (1765)
Tapestries
Vénus aux Forges (vers 1760), Tapestry in wool and silk, 3 x 5,90 m., musée départemental de la tapisserie d'Aubusson.
Collection of mythological subjects, after six paintings, acquired by
the administration royale for the manufacture d'Aubusson, 1759:[10]
Aurore enlève Céphale, whereabouts of cartoon unknown.
Jupiter transformé en taureau enlève Europe, carton conserved at the
musée des Arts décoratifs de Paris
Vénus aux forges de Lemnos, cartoon described by Denis Diderot after
the salon of 1759, tapestry conserved at the musée départemental de la
tapisserie d'Aubusson
Borée enlève Orythie, whereabouts unknown.
Thétys reçoit Apollon, cartoon conserved at the musée des Arts décoratifs, Paris
Mercure apporte Bacchus aux nymphes de Nysa, also known as La Naissance
de Bacchus, tapestry conserved at the Mobilier National, Paris.
Students
Antoine-Denis Chaudet (1763-1810)
Lagrenée le Jeune (the younger), (his brother)
Pierre Peyron (1744-1814)
References
Public Domain This article incorporates text from a publication now in
the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). Encyclopædia Britannica
(11th ed.). Cambridge University Press.
Archives Nationale, Paris. Cote: LH/1443/12, LAGRENEE AINE, No. 1443012.
Dictionnaire historique, critique et bibliographique' Menard & Desenne, Paris, 1822, 15th ed.
Louis
Courajod, Histoire de l'enseignement des arts du dessin au XVIIIe
siècle. L'École royale des élèves protégés, précédée d'une étude sur le
caractère de l'enseignement de l'art français aux différentes époques
de son histoire, et suivie de documents sur l'École royale gratuite de
dessin fondée par Bachelier, Paris, J.-B. Dumoulin, 1874, cité par
Annie Verger, « Entrer à l'Académie de France à Rome -- La faveur, le
droit, le choix », dans Gérard Mauger, Droits d'entrée: Modalités et
conditions d'accès aux univers artistiques, Paris, Ed. MSH, 2006 (lire
en ligne [archive]), p. 13-46.
Gallery Notes publication, W. J. Mitchell, London, November 2010, p.2
A Biographical and Critical Dictionary of Painters and Engravers, M. Bryan, (enlarged by George Stanley),London, 1849.
Dictionnaire historique, critique et bibliographique' Menard & Desenne, Paris, 1822, 15th ed.
A Biographical and Critical Dictionary of Painters and Engravers, M. Bryan, (enlarged by George Stanley),London, 1849.
Documents in Archives Nationale, Paris. Cote: LH/1443/12, LAGRENEE AINE, No. 1443012.
Actes d'Etat-civil d'Artistes Francais; Extraits des registres de L'Hotel de Ville de Paris(collaborative), 1873, p.201.
Pascal-François Bertrand. Aubusson, tapisseries des Lumières, Paris,
Snoeck / Aubusson : Cité de la tapisserie, 2013, p. 201-211.
Bibliography
Benezit Dictionary of Artists
Marc Sandoz, Les Lagrenée, I. Louis (Jean, François) Lagrénée, 1725-1805, Tours, 1983
Pascal-François Bertrand, « La tenture des sujets mythologiques d'après
Lagrenée l'aîné reconstituée », dans Aubusson, tapisseries des
Lumières, Paris, Aubusson, 2013
Public Domain
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public
domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.).
Cambridge University Press.
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