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Description:
Portrait, print entitled “The Head of a Girl” by Jean Baptiste Grueze
Greuze, Jean-Baptiste (1725-1805). French painter. He had a great success at the 1755 Salon with his Father Reading the Bible to His Children (Louvre, Paris) and went on to win enormous popularity with similar sentimental and melodramatic genre scenes. His work was praised by Diderot as `morality in paint', and as representing the highest ideal of painting in his day. He also wished to succeed as a history painter, but his Septimius Severus Reproaching Caracalla (Louvre, 1769) was rejected by the Salon, causing him acute embarrassment. Much of Greuze's later work consisted of titillating pictures of young girls, which contain thinly veiled sexual allusions under their surface appearance of mawkish innocence; The Broken Pitcher (Louvre), for example, alludes to loss of virginity.
With the swing of taste towards Neoclassicism his work went out of fashion and he sank into obscurity at the Revolution in 1789. At the very end of his career he received a commission to paint a portrait of Napoleon (Versailles, 1804-05), but he died in poverty. His huge output is particularly well represented in the Louvre, the Wallace Collection in London, the Musée Fabre in Montpellier, and in the museum dedicated to him in Tournus, his native town.
This is a lovely print of a Head of a Girl, which is in very good condition and shows in crisp clarity the many details that the original artist so meticulously rendered. This print is perfectly framed in a Grecian decorative white wood frame matted in green that makes the entire picture come to life. The colors seem to jump out of this 17.25” x 14.25” print.
| Status: For Sale |
Reference#: 5257 |
| Condition:
very good |
Year:
0
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| Maker:
Jean Baptiste Grueze |
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| Height:
17.25 in. (43.81 cm) |
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Width: 14.25 in. (36.19 cm)
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| Title:
Portrait, print entitled “The Head of a Girl” by Jean Baptiste Grueze |
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