Lot 711
  • 711

Jean-Jacques Lagrenée

Estimate
8,000 - 12,000 USD
bidding is closed

Description

  • Jean-Jacques Lagrenée
  • Rinaldo and Armida
  • signed and dated lower right: JJ.Lagrenée / 1785
  • oil on canvas
  • 19 3/4 by 25 3/4 in.; 50.2 by 65.4 cm.

Provenance

Anonymous sale, Paris, Tajan, 16 December 1996, lot 157;
M. Ghislain Prouvost, Château du Vert Bois;
His sale, Paris, 9 December 2005, lot 172;
There acquired by the present owner. 

Literature

M. Sandoz, Les Lagrenée, Jean-Jacques Lagrenée (le jeune) 1739-1821, Paris 1988, pp. 135 and 247, cat. no 18.

Condition

Oil on canvas, with an old lining. The picture surface is in generally good condition, with a stable web of craquelure and stretcher bar marks visible. Under UV light, there is inpainting, mainly to address the previously mentioned craquelure, in the face, proper right arm and bottom of the tunic of Armido as well as in the face of the figure in the boat. Scattered additional dots and dashes of retouching scattered in the body and face of Rinaldo. In overall good condition.
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