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Jean-Baptiste Greuze
Jean-Baptiste Greuze

Jean-Baptiste Greuze

French, 1725-1805
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Jean Baptiste Greuze was born in Tournus in 1725, sixth son of a master tiler. Legend has it that the young Greuze convinced his father of his natural aptitude for painting when he showed him a pen-and-ink drawing of Saint James, which his father mistook for an engraving. Greuze was sent to Lyon to study with the commercially successful portrait painter Charles Grandon (1691-1762). Sometime before 1755, Greuze left Lyon for Paris, where he went to pursue his studies at the Académie royale de peinture et de sculpture.

After training in Lyon, Jean-Baptiste Greuze arrived in Paris in 1750, where he sporadically attended the Académie Royale. His 1755 Salon debut was a triumph, but the acclamation turned his head. He antagonized everyone, including fellow artists, which later proved disastrous.

While retaining the clear, bright colors and lighter attitude of eighteenth-century painting, Greuze introduced a Dutch-influenced realism into French genre painting and portraiture. Through vivid facial expressions and dramatic gestures, Greuze's moralizing paintings exemplified the new idea that painting should relate to life. They captured the details of settings and costumes, "spoke to the heart," educated viewers, and aimed to make them "virtuous."

In 1769 Académie members refused Greuze membership as a history painter, accepting him only in the lower category of genre, perhaps partly from ill will. Humiliated, he withdrew from public exhibitions completely. During the 1770s Greuze enjoyed a widespread reputation and engravings after his paintings were widely distributed, but his wife embezzled most of the proceeds. By the 1780s, Neoclassicism curtailed his popularity and his quality declined. After enduring poverty and neglect, he died unnoticed, having outlived his time and his reputation.

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Head of a Young Boy

Head of a Young Boy (1763)

Jean-Baptiste Greuze (French, 1725-1805)
Figurative
Jean Jacques Caffiéri (1725–1792)

Jean Jacques Caffiéri (1725–1792) (ca. 1765)

Jean-Baptiste Greuze (French, 1725-1805)
Figurative
Madame Jean-Baptiste Nicolet (Anne Antoinette Desmoulins, 1743–1817)

Madame Jean-Baptiste Nicolet (Anne Antoinette Desmoulins, 1743–1817) (late 1780s)

Jean-Baptiste Greuze (French, 1725-1805)
Figurative
Princess Varvara Nikolaevna Gagarina (1762–1802)

Princess Varvara Nikolaevna Gagarina (1762–1802) (ca. 1780–82)

Jean-Baptiste Greuze (French, 1725-1805)
Figurative
Study of a Woman’s Head

Study of a Woman’s Head (ca. 1780)

Jean-Baptiste Greuze (French, 1725-1805)
Figurative
The Marriage Contract

The Marriage Contract (ca. 1761)

Jean-Baptiste Greuze (French, 1725-1805)
Figurative
Aegina Visited by Jupiter

Aegina Visited by Jupiter (ca. 1767–69)

Jean-Baptiste Greuze (French, 1725-1805)
Mythology
Portrait Of Madame Van Westrenen Of Tremaat

Portrait Of Madame Van Westrenen Of Tremaat (1802)

Jean-Baptiste Greuze (French, 1725-1805)
Figurative
Portrait of A Boy, Sometimes Presumed To Represent Louis-Charles, Duc De Normandie, Dauphin of France

Portrait of A Boy, Sometimes Presumed To Represent Louis-Charles, Duc De Normandie, Dauphin of France

Jean-Baptiste Greuze (French, 1725-1805)
Figurative
Le Petit Mathématicien

Le Petit Mathématicien

Jean-Baptiste Greuze (French, 1725-1805)
Figurative
Portrait of a Lady in Turkish Fancy Dress

Portrait of a Lady in Turkish Fancy Dress (circa 1790)

Jean-Baptiste Greuze (French, 1725-1805)
Figurative
La Prière du matin

La Prière du matin (18th century)

Jean-Baptiste Greuze (French, 1725-1805)
Figurative
Tête de jeune femme

Tête de jeune femme (1775)

Jean-Baptiste Greuze (French, 1725-1805)
Figurative
Boy’s head

Boy’s head (1745 - 1850)

Jean-Baptiste Greuze (French, 1725-1805)
Figurative
Head of a girl

Head of a girl (1745 - 1850)

Jean-Baptiste Greuze (French, 1725-1805)
Figurative
Portrait of the Marquis de Saint-Paul

Portrait of the Marquis de Saint-Paul (c. 1760)

Jean-Baptiste Greuze (French, 1725-1805)
Figurative
Portrait of Marie Angélique Vérany de Varennes, Mme Georges Gougenot de Croissy

Portrait of Marie Angélique Vérany de Varennes, Mme Georges Gougenot de Croissy (1757)

Jean-Baptiste Greuze (French, 1725-1805)
Figurative
Girl with Bonnet

Girl with Bonnet (About 1790)

Jean-Baptiste Greuze (French, 1725-1805)
Figurative
Guitar player

Guitar player (1755-1757)

Jean-Baptiste Greuze (French, 1725-1805)
Figurative
Portrait of a Young Woman

Portrait of a Young Woman

Jean-Baptiste Greuze (French, 1725-1805)
Figurative
Head of a Young Boy

Head of a Young Boy

Jean-Baptiste Greuze (French, 1725-1805)
Figurative
Le message d’amour

Le message d’amour

Jean-Baptiste Greuze (French, 1725-1805)
Figurative
Cimon and Pero; ‘Roman Charity’

Cimon and Pero; ‘Roman Charity’ (about 1767)

Jean-Baptiste Greuze (French, 1725-1805)
Mythology
Claude-Henri Watelet

Claude-Henri Watelet (ca 1765)

Jean-Baptiste Greuze (French, 1725-1805)
Figurative
The Nymph Callisto

The Nymph Callisto

Jean-Baptiste Greuze (French, 1725-1805)
Mythology
Une jeune fille qui pleure la mort de son oiseau (A girl weeping over her dead bird)

Une jeune fille qui pleure la mort de son oiseau (A girl weeping over her dead bird) (1757)

Jean-Baptiste Greuze (French, 1725-1805)
Figurative
The Guilty and Repentant Daughter

The Guilty and Repentant Daughter (early 1770s)

Jean-Baptiste Greuze (French, 1725-1805)
Illustration
Presumed portrait of Mademoiselle Clairon

Presumed portrait of Mademoiselle Clairon

Jean-Baptiste Greuze (French, 1725-1805)
Figurative
Head of a Girl

Head of a Girl (1763)

Jean-Baptiste Greuze (French, 1725-1805)
Drawings
Head of Caracalla

Head of Caracalla (c. 1768)

Jean-Baptiste Greuze (French, 1725-1805)
Drawings
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