# Ange Laurent de La Live de Jully, in Jean Baptiste Greuze

Jean Baptiste Greuze painted this (probably 1759), aged 34. It is now at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC.

Our note:

> The collector Ange Laurent de La Live de Jully sits at his harp in a loose white shirt and rose-pink breeches, turning from the strings to smile at us, in a room furnished with a gilded chair and a table of books, portfolios and a statuette.

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## The work

- Date: probably 1759
- Medium: oil on canvas
- Dimensions: overall: 117 x 88.5 cm (46 1/16 x 34 13/16 in.) framed: 161.9 x 121.9 cm (63 3/4 x 48 in.)
- Type: Painting
- Courtesy National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1946.7.8
- Licence: CC0 1.0

## The artist

[Jean Baptiste Greuze](https://www.ochreeditions.com/artists/jean-baptiste-greuze), French, 1725–1805

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.

3 works in the collection.

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