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(2) Jean-Jacques Lagrenée [le jeune]
(b Paris, 18 Sept 1739; d Paris, 13 Feb 1821). Painter, designer and engraver, brother of (1) Louis Lagrenée. He was a pupil of his brother, with whom he travelled to Russia, where he stayed from 1760 to 1762. Although in 1760 he had only obtained second place in the Prix de Rome competition, he received permission to stay at the Académie de France in Rome, where he spent the years 1763 to 1768. In Rome he discovered the works of antiquity and followed the example of Giovanni Battista Piranesi in drawing and engraving antique sculpture. He also painted a ceiling in the Palazzo Senatorio ‘in the arabesque taste’ (destr.). He was approved (agréé) by the Académie Royale in 1769. He exhibited regularly at the Salon between 1771 and 1804 and he was as prolific as his elder brother.
Part of the Lagrenée family
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