Jean-Baptiste Greuze
A Girl with Joined Hands
About this artwork
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artist:Jean-Baptiste Greuze (1725 - 1805) French
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title:A Girl with Joined Hands
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date created:1725 - 1805
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materials:Oil on canvas
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measurements:46.00 x 37.50 cm; Framed: 67.70 x 60.50 x 8.50 cm
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object type:
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credit line:Bequest of Lady Murray of Henderland 1861
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accession number:NG 437
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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...
