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Justice Disarmed by Innocence and Applauded by Prudence,
1766
Louis Lagrenée, French, 1724–1805
y1975-16
Information
Title
Justice Disarmed by Innocence and Applauded by Prudence
Dates
1766
Maker
Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
98 x 145.5 cm (38 9/16 x 57 5/16 in.)
frame: 120.3 x 164.1 x 6.3 cm (47 3/8 x 64 5/8 x 2 1/2 in.)
Credit Line
Museum purchase, John Maclean Magie, Class of 1892, and Gertrude Magie Fund
Object Number
y1975-16
Signatures
Signed and dated, lower left: Lagrenee / 1766
Culture
Type
Guillaume Mazade de Saint-Bresson, probably Hotel Castanier, rue des Capucines, Paris (1763-); ?art market, Aix-en-Provence, France (early 1970s); anonymous sale, Christie’s, London, July 18-19, 1974, lot 96 to James; Central Picture Galleries, New York (in 1975, sold to Princeton University Art Museum).
- Denis Diderot [text prepared by Jean Sezne and Jean Adhemar], Salons, (Oxford, UK: Clarendon Press, 1957-)., p. 21-22, 89-91; pls. 1-2bis
- Fine pictures by Old Masters: Thursday, July 18, 1974 ... and Friday, July 19, 1974 ..., (London: Christie, Manson & Woods, 1974)., pl. 23
- Diderot, et. al., Œuvres complète, (Paris: Hermann, 1975-2004)., Vol. 16: p. 130, fig. 13; fig. 123-124
- "Acquisitions", Art journal 35, no. 4 (Summer, 1976): p. 403-409., p. 405; p. 406 (illus.)
- "Acquisitions of the Art Museum 1975," Record of the Art Museum, Princeton University, 35, no. 1 (1976): p. 22-31., p. 28
- Else Marie Bukdahl, Diderot, critique d'art, (Copenhague: Rosenkilde et Bagger, 1980-)., p. 89, fig. 24
- Marc Sandoz, Les lagrenée, (Paris: Editart Les Quatre-Chemins, 1983-)., Vol. 1: p. 206-207, no. 163; pl. XXIII
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Eric Zafran, The Rococo age: French masterpieces of the eighteenth century, (Atlanta, GA: High Museum of Art, 1983).
, p. 53; fig. II.1 - Diderot et la critique de Salon 1759-1781: Musée du Breuil de Saint Germain, Langres, 2 juin 1984-16 septembre 1984, (Langres: Musée du Breuil de Saint-Germain, 1984).
- Allen Rosenbaum and Francis F. Jones, Selections from The Art Museum, Princeton University, (Princeton, NJ: The Art Museum, Princeton University, 1986), p. 252 (illus.)
- Else Marie Bukdahl, "Les problèmes d'identification des oeuvres d'art dans les Salons", Studies on Voltaire and the eighteenth century, no. 254 (1988)., p. 346-347; fig. 8
- Else Marie Bukdahl, "Lagrenee the Elder: "mythology' and "allegorie"", Bulletin (Allen Memorial Art Museum) 43 (1988-1989): p. 27-33., p. 32, fig. 7; p. 28-30
- June Hargrove, The French Academy: classicism and its antagonists, (Newark: University of Delaware Press; London; Cranbury, NJ: Associated University Presses, 1990)., p. 93
- Betsy Rosasco, "Louis-Jean-François Lagrenée's Four Estates and Their Patron, Guillaume Mazade de Saint-Bresson," Record of the Art Museum, Princeton University 52, no. 2 (1993): p. 2–25., p. 2, fig. 2
