Leprince trained in the studio of François Boucher and this combined with his own abundant artistic talent, lead him into a successful artistic career in Paris. However, in 1758, probably due to his own unhappy marriage, Leprince fled to Russia, remaining there until 1764. In addition to a number of court and society commissions, he made a large number of costume and landscape studies in the Russian hinterland, which were to form the basis of his highly fashionable output on his return to France.
