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(1) Louis(-Jean-François) Lagrenée [l’aîné]
(b Paris, 21 Jan 1724; d Paris, 19 June 1805). Painter. He was a pupil of Carle Vanloo and won the Prix de Rome in 1749. He stayed for only one year at the Académie de France in Rome (1754). On his return to Paris in 1755 he was received (reçu) as a member by the Académie Royale on presentation of the Rape of Dejanira (Paris, Louvre), a work inspired by Guido Reni’s painting of the same subject in the French royal collection (now Paris, Louvre). There followed a career filled with success and honours: from 1760 to 1762 he was Director of the St Petersburg Academy. In 1762 he was appointed a professor at the Académie Royale in Paris. Later, from 1781 to 1785, he was Director of the Académie de France in Rome, and in the latter year he became Recteur of the Académie Royale. From 1804 he was appointed a curator of the new national museums.
Part of the Lagrenée family
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