The 141 Artworks of Jean-Baptiste Greuze

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Jean-Baptiste Greuze - Head of a Young WomanHead of a Young WomanJean-Baptiste Greuze

Swirling clothing and hair join soulfully upturned eyes and a tilted head in order to condense an emotion—perhaps sorrowful longing—typical of têtes d’expression. Such 'expressive heads' were part of artists’ academic training, but also enjoyed appeal as independent works of art. This particular pos...

The Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, United States Of America)
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Jean-Baptiste Greuze - Head of a Young BoyHead of a Young BoyJean-Baptiste Greuze

Greuze exhibited this character study of a young boy at the Salon of 1763, at which time it belonged to the celebrated drawings collector Pierre Jean Mariette. Relatively rough brushwork is used throughout—the individual strokes are not disguised. This is deliberate and typical of studies that Greuz...

The Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, United States Of America)
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Jean-Baptiste Greuze - Broken EggsBroken EggsJean-Baptiste Greuze

In moralizing genre subjects such as this, Greuze bypassed the arcane subject matter of history painting to appeal to a broad public. At the Salon of 1757, a critic even declared that the pose of this young servant girl, whose loss of virginity is symbolized by the broken eggs, was worthy of a histo...

The Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, United States Of America)

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