Jacques de Lajoue's work is representative of the period during which decorators, ornamentalists and painters alike elaborated the transition from the grand genre of the age of Louis XIV to the Rococo style under the Regence and the reign of Louis XV. A son of the architect by the same name, Jacques de Lajoue was admitted to the Academie Royale in April 1721 as Peintre d'Architecture. His admission followed the premature death of Jean-Antoine Watteau, from whose compositions and different characters he found boundless inspiration. In 1735, Lajoue had established his own repertoire in the field of architectural landscapes or caprices. The large sweeping staircase, the monumental vase, the sculpture of the river goddess and the fountains are quintessential elements from the oeuvre of Jacques de Lajoue.