Jean Baptiste Greuze
French, 1725–1805
Born in Tournus; died in Paris.
Greuze rose to fame at the Paris Salon in the later 1750s with moralising scenes of family life, sentimental and theatrical, which the critic Denis Diderot championed. Broken Eggs, shown at the Salon of 1757, tells a story of lost innocence through a single domestic incident. When the Academy received him in 1769 as a genre painter rather than a history painter, he withdrew from the Salon for many years.
Written by Ochre Editions.
- In the collection
- 3 worksDated 1755–1765
- Mostly
- Drawing and Watercolor, Paintings
