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Description: | This painting is a copy of the original by Jean Baptiste Greuze, a genre and portrait painter, at the Musee Cognacq-Jay, Paris. Greuze was known for his studies of expressive head (têtes d'expression). The painting carries the stylistic traits of Greuze, such as the tender flesh and softness of head. Greuze produced many studies of heads in the 1780s as they proved an easy source of income and took little time to execute. He was almost forgotten towards the end of his career, but his enormous output was posthumously recognised and is now well represented in art collections worldwide. | Subjects: | figure; portrait | Source: | Vads | Creator: | Artist: Greuze, Jean-Baptiste (French painter and draftsman, 1725-1805) Æ After | Identifier: | http://www.vads.ac.uk/large.php?uid=8786... | Go to resource |
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