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Louis-Jean-François Lagrenée

1724 - 1805

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Louis-Jean-François Lagrenée (called Lagrenée l'aîné, Lagrenée the elder) (30 December 1724 – 19 June 1805) was a French rococo painter and student of Carle van Loo. He won the Grand Prix de Rome for painting in 1749 and was elected a member of the Académie royale de peinture et de sculpture in 1755. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Louis-Jean-François Lagrenée has received more than 112,624 page views. His biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. Louis-Jean-François Lagrenée is the 1,101st most popular painter (up from 1,124th in 2019), the 3,020th most popular biography from France (up from 3,112th in 2019) and the 188th most popular French Painter.

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Among PAINTERS

Among painters, Louis-Jean-François Lagrenée ranks 1,101 out of 2,023. Before him are Giovanni Battista Crespi, Jeff Wall, Luis Egidio Meléndez, Vicente Juan Masip, Frans Post, and Marie-Denise Villers. After him are Laurits Tuxen, Jean Jouvenet, Zdeněk Burian, Antonio Tempesta, Caspar Netscher, and Johann Baptist Zimmermann.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1724, Louis-Jean-François Lagrenée ranks 22. Before him are George Stubbs, Franz Anton Maulbertsch, Gottfried Heinrich Bach, Marc-Joseph Marion du Fresne, Heinrich XXIV, Count Reuss of Ebersdorf, and John Smeaton. After him are Claude Balbastre, John Michell, Dai Zhen, William, Count of Schaumburg-Lippe, Ji Yun, and Johann Julius Walbaum. Among people deceased in 1805, Louis-Jean-François Lagrenée ranks 20. Before him are Aloys I, Prince of Liechtenstein, Pehr Osbeck, Nicolas-Jacques Conté, Josephus Nicolaus Laurenti, Franz Xaver von Wulfen, and William Paley. After him are William Petty, 2nd Earl of Shelburne, Ji Yun, Manuel Maria Barbosa du Bocage, Geneviève Thiroux d'Arconville, John Robison, and Mihály Csokonai.

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In France

Among people born in France, Louis-Jean-François Lagrenée ranks 3,020 out of 6,770. Before him are Manuel Amoros (1962), Frederick IV, Duke of Lorraine (1282), Paul Lévy (1886), Antoine Bruni d'Entrecasteaux (1737), Marie-Denise Villers (1774), and Jules Simon (1814). After him are Pierre-François-Léonard Fontaine (1762), Jean Jouvenet (1644), Jean-Nicolas Corvisart (1755), Sarah Kofman (1934), Isabelle of France (1225), and Henri Laurens (1885).

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Among PAINTERS In France

Among painters born in France, Louis-Jean-François Lagrenée ranks 188. Before him are Jean-François Raffaëlli (1850), Othon Friesz (1879), Nicolas Froment (1430), Charles Joshua Chaplin (1825), François-Hubert Drouais (1727), and Marie-Denise Villers (1774). After him are Jean Jouvenet (1644), Félix Bracquemond (1833), François-Auguste Biard (1799), Antoine Coypel (1661), Simon Marmion (1425), and Alphonse-Marie-Adolphe de Neuville (1836).

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