ArtistsJean-Baptiste Greuze
Jean-Baptiste Greuze

Jean-Baptiste Greuze

1725–1805
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PaintingRococo
Representation
None documented
1
Institutional Exhibitions
24
Works in Collection
58
Assets Indexed
7
Authority-backed Facts
0
Publications Referenced
90%
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Authority Records (1)

Selected Institutional Exhibitions

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The Taste of a Connoisseur: The Paul J. Sachs Collection
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1966–1967

Field Verification (5 fields)

3 cross-verified · 2 single-source
  • Is PublishedManual· 100%
  • Birth yearArtsy· 92%
  • BiographyWikidata· 92%
  • NationalityWikidata + Artsy· 92%
  • LocationArtsy + Wikidata· 85%

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About

Why this artist matters now

Jean-Baptiste Greuze was an eighteenth-century French painter known for domestic interior scenes and sentimental narrative works that bridged Rococo elegance and emerging Neoclassical moral earnestness. His compositions typically featured young women and children in moments of virtue, melancholy, or domestic virtue, rendered with soft color harmonies and refined brushwork. Working in Paris during the latter half of the century, Greuze achieved considerable success among the bourgeoisie and salon audiences, though academic critics remained divided on whether his moralizing genre scenes merited admission to the history painting hierarchy. His influence on the development of narrative painting in the late eighteenth century was substantial.

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Taste overlap and adjacency

Movement
Rococo
Medium
Painting
Related Artists
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Museum Collections

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Artworks (24)

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Artwork sources (5)

24 published of 47 catalogued · 46 with image
  • Nga
    9 published9 img
  • The Met
    7 published7 img
  • Cleveland Museum of Art
    5 published4 img
  • Rijksmuseum
    3 published3 img
  • + 1 more source · 23 catalogued, not yet published

Per-Artwork Provenance Chains (top 8)

12 entries · 2 sources
  • Head of a Girl
    1763 · Cleveland · 5 prov
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  • Meisje met hoofddoek
    1735 · Rijksmuseum · 1 prov
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  • Marquis de Saint-Paul
    1760 · Rijksmuseum · 1 prov
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  • Head of Caracalla
    1763 · Cleveland · 1 prov
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  • Madame Greuze op een chaise-longue met haar hondje
    1757 · Rijksmuseum · 1 prov
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  • Sympathy
    1904 · Cleveland · 1 prov
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  • The Guilty and Repentant Daughter
    1770 · Cleveland · 1 prov
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  • Madame Greuze Asleep
    1776 · Cleveland · 1 prov
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Record

Images

11 assets
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The Guilty and Repentant Daughter (early 1770s)
Cleveland Museum of Art
Distress: Head of a Woman Looking Upwards (n.d.)
Art Institute of Chicago
Seated Gentleman (c. 1769)
Art Institute of Chicago
Study of a Groom (c. 1760)
Art Institute of Chicago
Little Girl Pouting (1775–1800)
Art Institute of Chicago
Ange Laurent de Lalive de Jully (1759–70)
Art Institute of Chicago
Women and Children Mourning a Dead Man (1778)
Art Institute of Chicago
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Representation & Collections

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Rijksmuseum
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The Metropolitan Museum of Art
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Cleveland Museum of Art
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National Gallery of Art
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