Pygmalion et Galilée
Allegory of peace 1770, Getty Museum
La charité romaine
La bonté et le générosité, Château de Fontainebleau
La justice et la clémence, Château de Fontainebleau
La mort de Cléopatre, Morez, musée Jourdain
Alcibiades on his Knees before his Mistress, Norton Simon Art Foundation
Lagrenée’s illustrious career began with his award of the Prix de Rome in 1749 and ended with his appointment as curator of the new national museums of France in 1804. He practiced a decorative, yet polished, classicizing style, reminiscent of seventeenth-century artists such as Guido Reni and Eustace de la Sueur. This painting provides an excellent example of the artist’s work in which the subject is treated in strong colors, with a smooth, refined technique. Alcibiades, an Athenian general, suffers his mistress’s rejection for defeating only nine of the ten warriors he met in battle. He was defeated by the tenth.
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L’Amour des Arts console la Peinture des écrits ridicules et envenimés de ses ennemis. Musée du louvre.
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