# LAGRENÉE, Jean-Jacques

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## Artist

- Lifespan: 1739–1821
- Profession: painter
- School: French

## Biography

French painter, known as Jean-Jacques Lagrenée the Younger. He was a history painter and engraver, the pupil of his elder brother Louis-Jean-François Lagrenée. With his brother he stayed in Russia \(1760-62\), then at the Académie de Rome \(1763-68\). Later he became artistic director of the Manufacture de Sèvres.

## Related artworks

- [Allegory on the Installation of the Museum in the Grande Galerie of the Louvre](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/lagrene-jean-jacques-r2905379d7d6c0b/allegory-on-the-installation-of-the-museum-in-the-grande-galerie-of-the-louvre-r940edc6f3f849b>)
- [Clio](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/lagrene-jean-jacques-r2905379d7d6c0b/clio-r0572f69afcb61e>)
- [Helen Recognising Telemachus, Son of Odysseus](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/lagrene-jean-jacques-r2905379d7d6c0b/helen-recognising-telemachus-son-of-odysseus-r10d1ff98b56609>)

## Attribution

[Web Gallery of Art](<https://beta.wga.hu/pages/about>)