Gallery of the Masters 
Jean-Baptiste Greuze
1725-1805 France/Rococo-Genre Portraitist
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Brief Biography-Greuze was born in Tournus, Burgundy, in 1725. From the age of eight, his talent for drawing was evident. Against his father’s intentions for him, he permitted him to go to Lyon with his maternal grandfather, named Grandon, to learn painting. He took him to Paris from Lyon, where he entered the Royal Academy, which accepted him after presenting several pictures. He visited Italy for a short period, and when he returned to Paris, he exhibited at the Academy and became fully admitted in 1769 as a genre painter. However, his disappointment with the ranking made him withdraw from showing his work at the Academy. After the revolution, he attempted to come back; however, his style was out of vogue, Neoclassicism was emerging, and he also had many failures, not least with his wife, whom he had to divorce. He died in Paris, a needy man, in 1805. The Musée Greuze in his town of Tournus has paintings by him, including memorabilia of his life. |
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Canary
Ariadne
Filial Piety
Innocence
Angel
Lawrence
Claude Earl
of Angiviller
Schoolboy
Sleeping
Claude Henri
Watelet
Fear
Expression
Titus at
the Desk
Girl
with Birds
Girl with
Blue Ribbon
La Geste
Napolitain
Marquise de
Chauvelin
Nicolas-Pierre-
Baptiste Anselme
Girl
has
the Dove
Spoiled
Child
Sleeping Knitter
The Broken
Jug
Septimius Severus
and Caracalla
The Broken
Mirror
The Cake of
the Kings
Young
Peasant Boy
The Child
with the Dove
The Complain of
the Watch
Red green
Shirt
The Dead
Bird
The
Ungrateful Son
Rene Louis
de Girardin
Portrait of
Joseph
Portrait of
a Girl
Boy in Red
Waistcoat
The Granted
Village
The Lazy
Italian
The
Punished Son
Madame
Greuze
Nymph
Simplicity
The
Guitarist
A
Boy
Votive Offering
to Cupid
The Widow and
Her Priest
Count
Stroganov
The
Spoiled Child
Wolfgang
Amadeus Mozart
portrait
of a boy
The
White Hat
Girl in
a Lilac Tunic
a young
peasant boy
Young Peasant
Woman
The Countess
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