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Jean Jacques Caffiéri (1725–1792)

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Jean Jacques Caffiéri (1725–1792)

Jean-Baptiste Greuze

ca. 1765

Medium

Oil on canvas

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Dimensions

Oval, 25 1/4 x 20 3/4 in. (64.1 x 52.7 cm)

Collection

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

Credit

Bequest of Ethel Tod Humphrys, 1956

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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