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Jean-Baptiste Greuze

Jean-Baptiste Greuze (1725 - 1805) was active/lived in France, Italy.  Jean Baptiste Greuze is known for History, sentimental middle class domestic genre and sensuous female portrait painting.

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An 18th-century painter of melodramatic genre, morality lessons, female figures and portraits whose subjects included Mozart and Benjamin Franklin, Jean-Baptiste Greuze was born in the Burgundy region of France.  He spent most of his career in Paris, where he was mentored by a portrait artist from Lyon named Grandon (Grondom). 

This artist was an advocate for the young Greuze, whose father had discouraged him from following his art talents.  In Paris, Greuze worked from the live model at the Royal Academy.  Gradually his work attracted the attention of members of the nobility such as the family of Madame d'Epinay, a French writer whose love affairs included Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Denis Diderot.

In 1755, Greuze's painting, Father Reading the Bible, was judged accomplished enough to merit much encouragement from Academicians.   That same year, he went to Italy with Abbé Louis Gougenot, who had influence among fine art profe   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 3742 characters.]  Artist bio

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

Jean-Baptiste Greuze

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THE HERMIT, OR THE DISTRIBUTOR OF ROSARIE

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PORTRAIT OF FLORENTIUS JOSEPHUS VAN ERTBORN (1784-1840)

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Lot 135
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Figure de jeune homme

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Portrait of a girl, bust-length, wearing a pink dress, diaphanous shawl and blue ribbon with flowers in her hair

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Le Petit Boudeur

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