Name: JEAN-JACQUES LAGRENÉE (PARIS 1739-1821)
Brand: Mercury entrusting the infant Bacchus to the nymphs
Price: 2600.00 GBP
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JEAN-JACQUES LAGRENÉE (PARIS 1739-1821)
Mercury entrusting the infant Bacchus to the nymphs
signed and dated 'Jean Jacques Lagrenee/ 1777' (lower left) and indistinctly inscribed lower centre, in the margin.
red chalk, pen, ink and grey wash on laid paper, watermarked D & C BLAUW, within the artists pen and wash border
16 x 23¹⁄₈ in. (40.5 x 58.5 cm.)

with Jacques Seligman & Co, New York.
Germain Seligman (1893-1978) Paris and New York (L.3863).
Anonymous sale; Christie's, London, 4 July 1995, lot 146.
Anonymous sale; Christie's, South Kensington, 21 April 1998, lot 286;
with W. M. Brady & Co., New York, 2000.
Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, New York, 25 January 2012, lot 82.
Acquired by the present owner from the above sale.

E. Bellier de la Chavignerie and L. Auvray, Dictionnaire général des artistes de l'école française depuis l'origine des arts du dessin jusqu'à nos jours. Architectes, peintres, sculpteurs, graveurs et lithographes, Paris, 1882, I, p. 879.

Paris, Salon, 1777, no. 41 (L'Education de Bacchus, dessin).
Mougins, Musée d'Art Classique, 2012 - 2023 (Inv. no. MMoCA132MA)

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A painting of the same subject by Lagrenée was sold in Paris, 9 April 1793, lot 116, together with its pendant Apollo and the Cumaean Sibyl.