Jeune femme drapée, assise, arrosant une plante (Young draped woman, seated, watering a plant in the style of red-figure vase painting), most likely from Recueil de Différentes Compositions Frises et Ornements dessinées et gravées à la manière du lavis par La Grenée le Juene Se trouve chez l'Auteur, au Louvre et chez Basan, rue et Hôtel Serpente A Paris, in an album containing Recueil de Compositions par Lagrenée Le Jeune (Collection of Compositions by Lagrenée the Younger)

Art Historical Context

In the late 18th century, artist Jean-Jacques Lagrenée the Younger (1730–3), a celebrated history painter bridging Rococo elegance and emerging Neoclassicism, this enchanting print as part his *Recueil deérentes Compositions Fr et Ornements*. Dated around 1784 and published in Paris through his own studio at the Louvre, *Jeune femme drapée assise, arrosant plante* captures a serene young woman seated and watering a plant, evoking the grace of ancient Greek life. Rendered in etching and aquatint with red and black inks on a modest plate (4 3/4 × 3 1/8 in.), the work masterfully imitates the re...

About the Artist

Jean Jacques Lagrenée · 1739–1821

Jean-Jacques Lagrenée, known as Lagrenée the Younger (1739–1821), was a distinguished French history painter, draftsman, and engraver born into a family of artists in Paris. The younger brother of the prominent Louis-Jean-François Lagrenée (Lagrenée the Elder), he studied under his elder sibling at the École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts in Paris, honing his skills in the rigorous academic t...