Jean-Baptiste Greuze

French Rococo Era Painter, 1725-1805 French painter and draughtsman. He was named an associate member of the Academie Royale de Peinture et de Sculpture, Paris, in 1755 on the strength of a group of paintings that included genre scenes, portraits and studies of expressive heads (tetes d'expression). These remained the essential subjects of his art for the next 50 years, except for a brief, concentrated and unsuccessful experiment with history painting in the late 1760s, which was to affect his later genre painting deeply. Though his art has often been compared with that of Jean-Simeon Chardin in particular and interpreted within the context of NEO-CLASSICISM in general, it stands so strikingly apart from the currents of its time that Greuze's accomplishments are best described, as they often were by the artist's contemporaries, as unique. He was greatly admired by connoisseurs, critics and the general public throughout most of his life. His pictures were in the collections of such noted connoisseurs as Ange-Laurent de La Live de Jully, Claude-Henri Watelet and Etienne-Franeois, Duc de Choiseul. For a long period he was in particular favour with the critic Denis Diderot, who wrote about him in the Salon reviews that he published in Melchior Grimm's privately circulated Correspondance litt?raire. His reputation declined towards the end of his life and through the early part of the 19th century, to be revived after 1850, when 18th-century painting returned to favour, by such critics as Theophile Thore, Arsene Houssaye and, most notably, Edmond and Jules de Goncourt in their book L'Art du dix-huitieme siecle. By the end of the century Greuze's work, especially his many variations on the Head of a Girl, fetched record prices, and his Broken Pitcher (Paris, Louvre) was one of the most popular paintings in the Louvre.


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Jean-Baptiste Greuze Portrait de jeune fille au ruban bleu oil


Portrait de jeune fille au ruban bleu
Painting ID::  77446
Portrait de jeune fille au ruban bleu
18th century Oil on canvas cjr
18th_century _ Oil_on_canvas _ cjr
   
   
     

Jean-Baptiste Greuze Portrait de Claude Henri Watelet oil


Portrait de Claude Henri Watelet
Painting ID::  77593
Portrait de Claude Henri Watelet
between 1763(1763) and 1765(1765) Oil on canvas 115 ?? 188 cm (45.3 ?? 74 in) cjr
   
   
     

Jean-Baptiste Greuze Portrait of the Countess Schouwaloff oil


Portrait of the Countess Schouwaloff
Painting ID::  77871
Portrait of the Countess Schouwaloff
1770s cjr
1770s cjr
   
   
     

Jean-Baptiste Greuze Portrait of a Boy oil


Portrait of a Boy
Painting ID::  78052
Portrait of a Boy
18th century Oil on canvas 34 x 45 cm (13.4 x 17.7 in) cjr
   
   
     

Jean-Baptiste Greuze Therese de Savoie oil


Therese de Savoie
Painting ID::  78191
Therese de Savoie
1775(1775) Medium Oil on canvas Dimensions 86 x 68 cm (33.9 x 26.8 in) cyf
   
   
     

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     Jean-Baptiste Greuze
     French Rococo Era Painter, 1725-1805 French painter and draughtsman. He was named an associate member of the Academie Royale de Peinture et de Sculpture, Paris, in 1755 on the strength of a group of paintings that included genre scenes, portraits and studies of expressive heads (tetes d'expression). These remained the essential subjects of his art for the next 50 years, except for a brief, concentrated and unsuccessful experiment with history painting in the late 1760s, which was to affect his later genre painting deeply. Though his art has often been compared with that of Jean-Simeon Chardin in particular and interpreted within the context of NEO-CLASSICISM in general, it stands so strikingly apart from the currents of its time that Greuze's accomplishments are best described, as they often were by the artist's contemporaries, as unique. He was greatly admired by connoisseurs, critics and the general public throughout most of his life. His pictures were in the collections of such noted connoisseurs as Ange-Laurent de La Live de Jully, Claude-Henri Watelet and Etienne-Franeois, Duc de Choiseul. For a long period he was in particular favour with the critic Denis Diderot, who wrote about him in the Salon reviews that he published in Melchior Grimm's privately circulated Correspondance litt?raire. His reputation declined towards the end of his life and through the early part of the 19th century, to be revived after 1850, when 18th-century painting returned to favour, by such critics as Theophile Thore, Arsene Houssaye and, most notably, Edmond and Jules de Goncourt in their book L'Art du dix-huitieme siecle. By the end of the century Greuze's work, especially his many variations on the Head of a Girl, fetched record prices, and his Broken Pitcher (Paris, Louvre) was one of the most popular paintings in the Louvre.

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