Jean Jacques Lagrenée

Minerve assisse dans un octagone décoratif, avec une figure à gauche et à doroite (la Nuit et le Jour?) (Minerva seated within an octagonal border, wth a figure at the right and at the left (Night and Day?), from Recueil de Différentes Compositions Frises et Ornements dessinées et gravées à la manière du lavis par La Grenée le Juene Se trouve chez l'Auteur, au Louvre et chez Basan, rue et Hôtel Serpente A Paris, in an album containing Recueil de Compositions par Lagrenée Le Jeune (Collection of Compositions by Lagrenée the Younger)

1784
Etching and aquatint
40.2 × 54.5 cm (15.8 × 21.5 in)

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