Jeune femme drapée, assise, arrosant une plante (Young draped woman, seated, watering a plant in the style of red-figure vase painting), most likely 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) ca. 1784 Jean Jacques Lagrenée French A successful history painter from a family of artists, Lagrenée was exposed to antiquity while studying in Rome as a young man. Over the course of his career, and in tandem with the times, his style moved steadily toward Neoclassicism. Although he had made some etchings in his youth, he adopted aquatint in the mid-1780s. This two-colored aquatint, evocative of the designs on ancient vases, was part of a collection of prints, all dating to around the time he was appointed artisti