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Portrait of a Man

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Portrait of a Man

Jean-Baptiste Greuze | Pierre Alexandre Wille | Anonymous, French, 18th century

18th century

Medium

Red chalk

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Dimensions

10 1/16 x 7 11/16 in. (25.6 x 19.5 cm)

Collection

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

Credit

Gift of William Rieder, 2009

Classification

Drawings

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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