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Aegina Visited by Jupiter

Jean-Baptiste Greuze

ca. 1767–69

Medium

Oil on canvas

Tags

Eagles Female Nudes Beds Jupiter

Dimensions

57 7/8 x 77 1/8 in. (147 x 195.9 cm)

Collection

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

Credit

Gift of Harry N. Abrams and Purchase, Joseph Pulitzer Bequest, Pfeiffer, Fletcher, and Rogers Funds, 1970

Classification

Paintings

Department

European Paintings

Rights

Public Domain

About Jean-Baptiste Greuze

1725–1805 • France

Greuze's paintings are typical for his time and place in that he used clear, bright colors, with subjects exhibiting rather light attitude of eighteenth-century painting. However, he was innovative in introducing a Dutch-influenced realism into French genre painting and portraiture. Through vivid facial expressions and dramatic gestures, Greuze's moralizing paintings exemplified the new idea that painting should relate to life.

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