258. Louis-Jean-François Lagrenée (Paris 1724-1805) Lot and His Daughters Pouring Him a Drink oil on panel oil on panel 24.3 x 32.2cm (9 9/16 x 12 11/16in). Provenance Painted for Doctor M. Cochu Collection Alexandre-Théodore Brongniart His sale, Hôtel de Bullion Paillet, Paris, 22 March 1792 With Joseph Hahn gallery, 1972, where purchased by the present owner Exhibited Paris, Salon of 1779, n. 14 Literature Explanation of paintings, sculptures and engravings, 1779, p. 6, n. 14 Mercure de France, 1779, p. 124 E. de Goncourt, "Lagrenée l'Aîné" in L'Art, revue hebdomadaire illustrée, 1877, vol. IV, pp. 25-26; 137-141 and 235-240, in particular, p. 238 E. de Goncourt, Portraits intimes du dix-huitième siècle, Paris, 1878, p. 351 M. Sandoz, Les Lagrenée. I. Louis, Jean, François Lagrenée. 1725-1805, Paris, 1983, pp. 231-232, pl. XXV, pp. 261-262 S. Loire, "Le Guerchin et les peintres français aux XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles", in M. G. Bernardini, S. Danesi Squarzina and C. Strinati, Studi dell'arte in onore di Denis Mahon, Milan, 2000, pp. 237-251, pp. 246 and 250, note 65 P. Michel, "Le tableau de maître: un objet de luxe dans la France du XVIIIe siècle?", in S. Castelluccio, Le Commerce du luxe à Paris aux XVIIe et XVIIIe siècle, Bern, 2009, p. 86 P. MicheL, Peinture et Plaisir. Les Goûts picturaux des collectionneurs parisiens au XVIIIe siècle, Rennes, 2010, p. 82 J. Assémat-Tessandier, Louis Lagrenée, dit l'Aîné 1725-1805, 2022, p. 354, cat. no. 762 P, ill. Commissioned by Doctor François-Félicité Cochu, a collector of contemporary artists at the time, who ordered 'pendants for the pieces in his cabinet', the present painting was exhibited with its counterpart La Charité at the Salon of 1779. The iconography of Lot and his daughters, derived from Genesis, is here treated differently from previous versions (see p. 354, under cat.no. 762 P and p. 382, cat. no. 892 P): Lot is depicted as a younger man; and the position of the group formed by the seated father and one of his daughters, leaning on his lap, is taken in reverse from the Hermitage version (ibid, cat. no. 477P).