# The Visitation [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [LAGRENÉE, Louis-Jean-François]() - Date: 1751-1800 - Technique: Oil on canvas ## Commentary Few French painter of the eighteenth century were more indecisive than Lagrenée, who was capable of shifting from the flowery allegory of Harvest \(1769\) to the gray classicism of The Visitation \(1781\). The prolific Lagrenée listened to everyone, and was alternatively treated by Diderot with harshness for his lack of ideas \(Salon 1769\) and extolled for the "charm" of his Mercury, Herse and Aglauros \(Salon 1767\). This made Lagrenée a particularly indulgent director of the French Academy in Rome from 1781 to 1787. ## Related artworks - [Allegory on the Death of the Dauphin]() - [Aurora's Take Off]() - [Bacchus and Ariadne]() - [Ceres and Triptolemus]() - [Charles and Ubalde]() - [Cupid and Psyche]() - [David and Bathsheba]() - [Diana and Endymion]() - [Justice and Clemency]() - [Love Consoling Painting from the Critics of her Enemies]() - [Mars and Venus Surprised by Vulcan]() - [Mars and Venus Surprised by Vulcan]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()