33,5" JEAN-BAPTISTE GREUZE "Spoiled Child" painting art printed on canvas
JEAN-BAPTISTE GREUZE (1725 - 1805)
Title of artwork: "Spoiled Child"
Ready to hang on the wall. Canvas on the wooden underframe. Outer frame are not included!
Year: 1760
Technique: printed on canvas nowadays
Condition: perfect
Diagonal: 33,5" or 85,2 cm.
Size: 21,7" x 25,6" (in) or 55 x 65 cm.
Please note that this is a reproduction printed on canvas
The size may differ from how it looks in the photo
Color can be slightly different from the picture.
Jean-Baptiste
Greuze was a French painter of portraits, genre scenes, and history painting. Diderot,
in Le Fils naturel and Père de famille, tried to turn the vein of domestic
drama to account on the stage; that which he tried and failed to do, Greuze, in
painting, achieved with extraordinary success, although his works, like the
plays of Diderot, were affected by that very artificiality against which they
protested. The touch of melodramatic exaggeration, however, which runs through
them finds an apology in the firm and brilliant play of line, in the freshness
and vigour of the flesh tints, in the enticing softness of expression, by the
alluring air of health and youth, by the sensuous attractions, in short, with
which Greuze invests his lessons of bourgeois morality. 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 and 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. It was also
organized by Munhall, who wrote the catalog.
Ref.: 101126533214