L'ange gardien (The Guardian Angel), in an album containing Recueil de Compositions par Lagrenée Le Jeune (Collection of Compositions by Lagrenée the Younger)

L'ange gardien (The Guardian Angel), in an album containing Recueil de Compositions par Lagrenée Le Jeune (Collection of Compositions by Lagrenée the Younger) by Jean Jacques Lagrenée

Medium

Etching and aquatint; second state of two (Baudicour)

Dimensions

Sheet: 15 7/8 × 21 9/16 in. (40.4 × 54.7 cm) Plate: 5 13/16 × 7 1/2 in. (14.7 × 19 cm)

Classification

Prints

Department

Drawings and Prints

Museum

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

Credit

Purchase, The Arthur Ross Foundation Gift and Charles Z. Offin Fund, 1999

Accession Number

1999.2(9)

Tags

ChildrenWomenAngels

About the Artist

Jean Jacques Lagrenée · 17391821

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...

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