page_title: Louis-Jean-François Lagrenée
section_title: Academy membership
hierarchical_section_title: Louis-Jean-François Lagrenée / Academy membership
caption_attribution_description: Venus and Nymphs Bathing by French artist Louis Jean-Francois Lagrenee
context_page_description: Louis-Jean-François Lagrenée 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. His younger brother Jean-Jacques Lagrenée was also a painter.
  Lagrenée's notable career appointments included:
  Court painter to Elizabeth, Empress of Russia.
  Director of the Academy of Arts in Saint Petersburg.
  Director of the French Academy in Rome.
  Professor-rector of the Académie royale de peinture et de sculpture.
  Honorary director-curator of the Louvre museum.
  In July 1804, Napoleon I conferred upon Lagrenée the rank of chevalier of the Legion d'Honneur.
  Lagrenée died in June 1805, aged 80 years and 6 months.
context_section_description: After returning from Rome in 1753, Lagrenée set to work on a large painting - The abduction of Dejaneira by the centaur Nessus (musée du Louvre) - which, when finished in 1755, was the reception piece which earned him  membership of the Académie de peinture et de sculpture, by a unanimous vote. By this time, Lagrenée was already considered something of a celebrity.
caption: Venus and Nymphs Bathing (1776).
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