# 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._

3 works in the collection.

- [Broken Eggs](https://www.ochreeditions.com/art/broken-eggs-met-436579), Jean Baptiste Greuze, 1756. Courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
- [Ange Laurent de La Live de Jully](https://www.ochreeditions.com/art/ange-laurent-de-la-live-de-jully-nga-32686), Jean Baptiste Greuze, probably 1759. Courtesy of National Gallery of Art, Washington.
- [Study of a Groom](https://www.ochreeditions.com/art/study-of-a-groom-aic-29903), Jean Baptiste Greuze, c. 1760. Courtesy of Art Institute of Chicago.