Jean-Baptiste Greuze, calling card
Jean-Baptiste Greuze
ca. 1755–1805
Medium
Etching
Dimensions
Sheet: 3 in. × 4 3/16 in. (7.6 × 10.6 cm)
Classification
Prints|Ephemera|Calling cards
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gift of F. C. Schang, 1979
Accession Number
1979.661.6
Tags
Musical InstrumentsMenCowsSheep
About the Artist
Jean-Baptiste Greuze · 1725–1805
Jean-Baptiste Greuze (1725–1805) was a French painter whose moralistic genre scenes and expressive portraits made him one of the most celebrated and controversial artists of the eighteenth century. Born in Tournus, Burgundy, Greuze traveled to Paris in his youth and trained under Charles Grandon before gaining admission to the Académie Royale de Peinture et de Sculpture, where he made a sensationa...