Madame Jean-Baptiste Nicolet (Anne Antoinette Desmoulins, 1743–1817)
Jean-Baptiste Greuze
late 1780s
Medium
Oil on wood
Dimensions
25 1/4 x 21 in. (64.1 x 53.3 cm)
Classification
Paintings
Department
European Paintings
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gift of Colonel and Mrs. Jacques Balsan, 1955
Accession Number
55.205.2
Tags
PortraitsWomen
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...