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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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Etude d’homme effondré sur une table

Etude d’homme effondré sur une table

Jean-Baptiste Greuze (French, 1725-1805)
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Girl’s head with bonnet

Girl’s head with bonnet (ca. 1763)

Jean-Baptiste Greuze (French, 1725-1805)
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Alte Frau, drei jungen Frauen aus einem Glase wahrsagend

Alte Frau, drei jungen Frauen aus einem Glase wahrsagend

Jean-Baptiste Greuze (French, 1725-1805)
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Figurengruppe mit zwei Männern, die einer am Boden liegenden toten Hirschkuh die Hufe zusammenzubinden versuchen

Figurengruppe mit zwei Männern, die einer am Boden liegenden toten Hirschkuh die Hufe zusammenzubinden versuchen

Jean-Baptiste Greuze (French, 1725-1805)
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Frauenkopf mit eingebundenen Haaren im Profil nach rechts

Frauenkopf mit eingebundenen Haaren im Profil nach rechts (ca 1780)

Jean-Baptiste Greuze (French, 1725-1805)
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Greift er ihm ans Kinn mit wildem Hassen

Greift er ihm ans Kinn mit wildem Hassen (ca 1773)

Jean-Baptiste Greuze (French, 1725-1805)
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Half-Length Portrait of an Old Man

Half-Length Portrait of an Old Man

Jean-Baptiste Greuze (French, 1725-1805)
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In einer Schmiede fleht ein Weib mit zwei Kindern einen Mann an

In einer Schmiede fleht ein Weib mit zwei Kindern einen Mann an

Jean-Baptiste Greuze (French, 1725-1805)
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Jüngling im Dreiviertelprofil nach links

Jüngling im Dreiviertelprofil nach links

Jean-Baptiste Greuze (French, 1725-1805)
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Sitzender männlicher Akt

Sitzender männlicher Akt

Jean-Baptiste Greuze (French, 1725-1805)
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Two washerwomen

Two washerwomen

Jean-Baptiste Greuze (French, 1725-1805)
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Anacreon in His Old Age Crowned by Love

Anacreon in His Old Age Crowned by Love

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

Head of a Young Man

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

Head of a Young Woman

Jean-Baptiste Greuze (French, 1725-1805)
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Portrait of Denis Diderot (1713-1784)

Portrait of Denis Diderot (1713-1784) (1766)

Jean-Baptiste Greuze (French, 1725-1805)
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The Game of Morra

The Game of Morra (1756)

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

Head of a young girl (1777)

Jean-Baptiste Greuze (French, 1725-1805)
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