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Louis Jean Francois Lagrenee
(December 30, 1724 - June 19, 1805) was a French painter, a pupil of Carlo Vanloo. His younger brother Jean-Jacques Lagren??e was also a painter.
Lagrenee was born in Paris. In 1755 he became a member of the Royal Academy, presenting as his diploma picture the Rape of Deianira (Louvre). He visited Saint Petersburg at the call of the empress Elizabeth, and on his return was named in 1781 director of the French Academy in Rome, a position he kept until 1787. He there painted the Indian Widow, one of his best-known works.
In 1804 Napoleon conferred on him the cross of the l??gion d'honneur, and on June 19, 1805 he died in the Louvre, of which he was honorary keeper.
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Aurora's Take Off
Oil on canvas
121 x 170 cm
Painting ID:: 70914
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Aurora's_Take_Off
Oil on canvas
121 x 170 cm
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Tancred and Clorinda
1761
Oil on canvas
Painting ID:: 71023
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Tancred_and_Clorinda
1761
Oil on canvas
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Tancred and Clorinda
Date 1761
Medium Oil on canvas
Dimensions cm
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Painting ID:: 72197
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Tancred_and_Clorinda
Date 1761
Medium Oil on canvas
Dimensions cm
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Musee du Louvre
1783(1783)
Medium Oil on canvas
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Painting ID:: 85817
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Musee_du_Louvre
1783(1783)
Medium Oil on canvas
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Diana at her Bath
Oil on paper, 26,5 x 19,5 cm
Date 1775 ca.
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Painting ID:: 86735
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Diana_at_her_Bath
Oil on paper, 26,5 x 19,5 cm
Date 1775 ca.
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Louis_Jean_Francois_Lagrenee
(December 30, 1724 - June 19, 1805) was a French painter, a pupil of Carlo Vanloo. His younger brother Jean-Jacques Lagren??e was also a painter.
Lagrenee was born in Paris. In 1755 he became a member of the Royal Academy, presenting as his diploma picture the Rape of Deianira (Louvre). He visited Saint Petersburg at the call of the empress Elizabeth, and on his return was named in 1781 director of the French Academy in Rome, a position he kept until 1787. He there painted the Indian Widow, one of his best-known works.
In 1804 Napoleon conferred on him the cross of the l??gion d'honneur, and on June 19, 1805 he died in the Louvre, of which he was honorary keeper.
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