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Jean-Baptiste Greuze, calling card

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Jean-Baptiste Greuze, calling card

Jean-Baptiste Greuze

ca. 1755–1805

Medium

Etching

Tags

Musical Instruments Men Cows Sheep

Dimensions

Sheet: 3 in. × 4 3/16 in. (7.6 × 10.6 cm)

Collection

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

Credit

Gift of F. C. Schang, 1979

Classification

Prints|Ephemera|Calling cards

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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