Jean-Jacques LAGRENEE dit LE JEUNE (Paris 1739 - 1821) Allegory of Charity Walnut panel, one board, not parqueted 35 x 50 cm French 17th-century frame with scallop decoration, resealed Signed and dated right, center: 'Lagrenée / 1776 " Provenance: In the same family since the 1880s. We would like to thank Monsieur Joseph Assémat-Tessandier for confirming the authenticity of this painting to Jean-Jacques Lagrenée le jeune, by direct examination of the work on February 5, 2026. He will include it in his monograph on the artist, to be published by Arthena. A repeat of our composition is preserved in the Hôtel-Dieu museum in Chatillon-sur-Chalaronne (see the catalog of the exhibition Trésors de l'Ain, Bourg-en-Bresse, Musée municipal - monastère de Brou, 2011, no. 31). Jean-Jacques Lagrenée entered the Académie de peinture et de sculpture in 1760, following his older brother, Louis-Jean-François, to St. Petersburg to study with Empress Elisabeth of Russia from 1760 to 1762. He then stayed at the Académie de France in Rome from 1765 to 1769. He was admitted to the Académie royale in 1769 and received his diploma in 1775, a year before our painting, with the Plafond de l'Hiver. A painter and decorator (he worked on the decoration of the Château de Fontainebleau), Jean-Jacques was also an engraver. He engraved etchings during his stays in Rome and Russia.