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Broken Eggs

Jean-Baptiste Greuze

1756

Medium

Oil on canvas

Tags

InteriorsChildrenMenWomenEggs

Dimensions

28 3/4 x 37 in. (73 x 94 cm)

Collection

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

Credit

Bequest of William K. Vanderbilt, 1920

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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