books0977: Portrait présumé de Joséphine, fille de Bergeret de Grancourt, touch
books0977: Portrait présumé de Joséphine, fille de Bergeret de Grancourt, touchant le piano-forte (1782). Louis-Jean-François Lagrenée (French, 1724-1805). Oil. Musée des Beaux-Arts et d'Archéologie.Lagrenée played an important part in the French movement away from the Rococo style toward a more restrained, classicizing expression. Deliberately rejecting the exuberant, artificial aesthetic of the mid-1700s, he revived instead the previous century’s taste for cool colors and polished, refined technique. -- source link