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Princess Varvara Nikolaevna Gagarina (1762–1802)
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Princess Varvara Nikolaevna Gagarina (1762–1802)

Jean-Baptiste Greuze

ca. 1780–82

Medium

Oil on canvas

Tags

PrincessesPortraitsWomenDogs

Dimensions

Oval, 31 1/2 x 25 in. (80 x 63.5 cm)

Collection

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

Credit

Gift of Mrs. William M. Haupt, from the collection of Mrs. James B. Haggin, 1965

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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