Greuze, Jean-Baptiste

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Jean-Baptiste Greuze (1725–1805)

• Was a French painter of portraits, genre scenes, and history painting.
• Greuze was born at Tournus, a market town in Burgundy.
• Edgar Munhall organized the first major exhibition devoted to the artist: "Jean-Baptiste Greuze, 1725-1805" (1976-1977).
• The exhibition opened at the Wadsworth Atheneum in Hartford.
• Then traveled to the California Legion of Honor in San Francisco and the Musée des Beaux-Arts in Dijon.
• In 2002, the first exhibition of Greuze's drawings was held at The Frick Collection in New York.
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Jean-Baptiste Greuze, The Marriage Contract, 1761

Original, Louvre Museum, Paris. Visited in 2021.

Jean-Baptiste Greuze, The Marriage Contract, 1761

Jean-Baptiste Greuze, The Marriage Contract, 1761

Jean-Baptiste Greuze, The Marriage Contract, 1761

Jean-Baptiste Greuze, The Reading of the Bible (A Father Who Reads the Bible to His Children), 1755

Original, Louvre Museum, Paris. Visited in 2021.

Jean-Baptiste Greuze, The Reading of the Bible (A Father Who Reads the Bible to His Children), 1755

Jean-Baptiste Greuze, The Reading of the Bible (A Father Who Reads the Bible to His Children), 1755

Jean-Baptiste Greuze, The paternal curse. The Ungrateful Son, 1777

Original, Louvre Museum, Paris. Visited in 2021.

Jean-Baptiste Greuze, The paternal curse. The Ungrateful Son, 1777

Jean-Baptiste Greuze, Loth and his daughters, before 1769

Original, Louvre Museum, Paris. Visited in 2021.

Jean-Baptiste Greuze, Loth and his daughters, before 1769

Jean-Baptiste Greuze, Portrait of Claude Henri Watelet, financier and art collector. Salon of 1765

Original, Louvre Museum, Paris. Visited in 2021.

Jean-Baptiste Greuze, Portrait of Claude Henri Watelet, financier and art collector. Salon of 1765

Jean-Baptiste Greuze, The Broken Pitcher, 1771

Original, Louvre Museum, Paris. Visited in 2021.

Jean-Baptiste Greuze, The Broken Pitcher, 1771

Jean-Baptiste Greuze, The Broken Pitcher, sketch

Original, Louvre Museum, Paris. Visited in 2021.

Jean-Baptiste Greuze, The Broken Pitcher, sketch

Jean-Baptiste Greuze, The Milkmaid, about 1772-1773

Original, Louvre Museum, Paris. Visited in 2021.

Jean-Baptiste Greuze, The Milkmaid, about 1772-1773

Jean-Baptiste Greuze, The dead bird. A Child hesitant to touch a bird in fear that it is dead. Salon of 1800

Original, Louvre Museum, Paris. Visited in 2021.

Jean-Baptiste Greuze, The dead bird. A Child hesitant to touch a bird in fear that it is dead. Salon of 1800

Jean-Baptiste Greuze, Guitar Player, 1755-1757

Original, The National Museum in Warsaw. Visited in 2021.

Jean-Baptiste Greuze, Guitar Player, 1755-1757

Jean-Baptiste Greuze, Guitar Player, 1755-1757

Jean-Baptiste Greuze, The Laundress, c. 1761

Original, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge. Visited in 2023.

Jean-Baptiste Greuze, The Laundress, c. 1761

Jean-Baptiste Greuze, Fright, c. 1800

Original, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge. Visited in 2023.

Jean-Baptiste Greuze, Fright, c. 1800

Jean-Baptiste Greuze, Florent van Ertborn, 1804

Original, Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp, Belgium. Visited in 2023.