Jean-Baptiste Greuze
Head of a Girl
About this artwork
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artist:Jean-Baptiste GreuzeFrench (1725 - 1805)
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title:Head of a Girl
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date created:Unknown
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materials:Coloured chalks on paper
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object type:
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credit line:David Laing Bequest to the Royal Scottish Academy transferred 1910
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accession number:D 1679
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Jean-Baptiste Greuze
Jean-Baptiste Greuze
Greuze specialised in painting popular scenes from daily life, rich in detail and moralising or sentimental in content. He invented new subjects and had engravings made after his paintings which ensured a wide audience for his work. When he first exhibited at the Paris Salon his paintings were...
