Louis Jean François Lagrenée I (Paris 1725-1805)
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Louis Jean François Lagrenée I (Paris 1725-1805)

A lady bathing by a river, with two turtledoves

Closed14 April 2016

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Louis Jean François Lagrenée I (Paris 1725-1805)
A lady bathing by a river, with two turtledoves
signed and dated 'L. Lagrenée / 1769.' (lower left)
oil on canvas
27 5/8 x 35½ in. (70.2 x 90.2 cm.)

Pierre Joseph Victor, Baron de Brunstaat and Baron de Besenval (1721-1791).
Vigny collection.
with Galerie Eric Coatalem, Paris, until 2002, when acquired by the following.
Private collection.

Specialist note

Lagrenée painted this picture in 1769; in the same year, its first owner Baron de Besenval had been elected to be an honorary member of the Salon of the Académie Royal de peinture et de sculpture, where the work was later lent.  A red-chalk study for this allegorical composition of love, which was also in the collection of Baron de Besenval, is currently preserved in the Louvre at the Départment des Arts Graphiques.