A partial collection of the paintings of Louis-Jean-François Lagrenée

Louis-Jean-François Lagrenée (December 30, 1724 – June 19, 1805) was a French painter. A pupil of Carlo Vanloo, Lagrenée was born in Paris,

In 1755 he became a member of the Royal Academy, presenting as his diploma picture the Abduction 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. In 1804 Napoleon Bonaparte conferred on him the cross of the légion d'honneur. On June 19, 1805 he died in the Louvre, of which he was honorary keeper.