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Bolognese Peasant Girl with a Distaff

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Bolognese Peasant Girl with a Distaff

Jean-Baptiste Greuze

1755

Medium

Pen and black ink, brush and gray wash, over traces of graphite

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Dimensions

7 15/16 x 5 3/8 in. (20.2 x 13.6 cm)

Collection

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

Credit

Harry G. Sperling Fund, 1982

Classification

Drawings

Department

Drawings and Prints

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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