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.
• Greuze was the father of painter Anna-Geneviève Greuze, who was also his pupil.
• One of Greuze's pupils, Madame Le Doux; his daughter and granddaughter, Madame de Valory, also inherited some traditions of his talent.
• On 4 March 1805, he died in the Louvre in great poverty.
• He had been in receipt of considerable wealth, which he had dissipated by extravagance and bad management, he was forced to solicit commissions which his enfeebled powers no longer enabled him to carry out with success.
• The displayed painting is a crop from: Broken Eggs 1756.
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Jean-Baptiste Greuze, Head of a Young Boy, 1763

Original, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Visited in 2017-2021.

Jean-Baptiste Greuze, Head of a Young Boy, 1763

Jean-Baptiste Greuze, Aegina Visited by Jupiter, ca. 1767–69

Original, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Visited in 2017-2021.

Jean-Baptiste Greuze, Aegina Visited by Jupiter, ca. 1767–69

Jean-Baptiste Greuze, Portrait of a Young Girl

Original, Šternberský palác. Visited in 2017-20.

Jean-Baptiste Greuze, The Laundress (La Blanchisseuse), 1761

Original, The J. Paul Getty Museum. Visited in 2018.

Jean-Baptiste Greuze, The Laundress (La Blanchisseuse), 1761

Jean-Baptiste Greuze, Indolence or La Paresseuse Italienne (The Lazy Italian Girl), 1757

Original, Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art - Hartford. Visited in 2019.

Jean-Baptiste Greuze, Indolence or La Paresseuse Italienne (The Lazy Italian Girl), 1757

Jean-Baptiste Greuze, Portrait of a Boy, c. 1760

Original, The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. Visited in 2019.

Jean-Baptiste Greuze, La Simplicite (Simplicity), 1759

Original, The Kimbell Art Museum in Fort Worth, TX. Visited in 2020.

Jean-Baptiste Greuze, La Simplicite (Simplicity), 1759

Jean-Baptiste Greuze, Young Girl

Original, The Pinakotheken - Munich. Visited in 2019.

Jean-Baptiste Greuze, The Lament of the Wath (La vertu chancelante), ca. 1775

Original, The Pinakotheken - Munich. Visited in 2019.

Jean-Baptiste Greuze, The Lament of the Wath (La vertu chancelante), ca. 1775

Jean-Baptiste Greuze, Louis de Silvestre the Younger, ca. 1754

Original, The Pinakotheken - Munich. Visited in 2019.

Jean-Baptiste Greuze, Louis de Silvestre the Younger, ca. 1754

Jean-Baptiste Greuze, A Young Woman Praying at the Altar of Love, 1767

Original, The Wallace Collection - London. Visited in 2018.

Jean-Baptiste Greuze, A Young Woman Praying at the Altar of Love, 1767

Jean-Baptiste Greuze, The Broken Mirror, c. 1762 - 1763

Original, The Wallace Collection - London. Visited in 2018.

Jean-Baptiste Greuze, The Broken Mirror, c. 1762 - 1763

Jean-Baptiste Greuze, Woman with Doves, 1799 - 1800

Original, The Wallace Collection, London. Visited in 2018.

Jean-Baptiste Greuze, Woman with Doves, 1799 - 1800

Jean-Baptiste Greuze, The Letter Writer, c. 1800 - 1806

Original, The Wallace Collection, London. Visited in 2018.

Jean-Baptiste Greuze, The Letter Writer, c. 1800 - 1806

Jean-Baptiste Greuze, Girl in a White Dress, c. 1765

Original, The Wallace Collection, London. Visited in 2018.

Jean-Baptiste Greuze, Girl in a White Dress, c. 1765

Girl with a Gauze Scarf, c. (1770)

Original, The Wallace Collection - London. Visited in 2018.

Girl with a Gauze Scarf, c. (1770)

Boy with a Dog, , c. (1757)

Original, The Wallace Collection - London. Visited in 2018.

Boy with a Dog, , c. (1757)

Jean-Baptiste Greuze - Le Geste Napolitain (The Neapolitan Gesture), (1757)

Original, Worcester Art Museum, MA. Visited in 2020.

Jean-Baptiste Greuze - Le Geste Napolitain (The Neapolitan Gesture), (1757)

Jean-Baptiste Greuze - Broken Eggs (1756)

Original, MET-NY. Visited in 2017-21.

Jean-Baptiste Greuze - Broken Eggs (1756)

Jean-Baptiste Greuze - A Girl in a Blue Dress, Bust-Length and Leaning Back in a Chair

Original, Sotheby`s, New York. Visited in 2020.

Jean-Baptiste Greuze - A Girl in a Blue Dress, Bust-Length and Leaning Back in a Chair

Jean-Baptiste Greuze - Innocence (1763)

Original, Sotheby`s, New York. Visited in 2020.

Jean-Baptiste Greuze - Innocence (1763)

Jean-Baptiste Greuze, The Dreamer, About 1765–1769

Original, Dallas Museum of Art. Visited in 2020.