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Greuze

[ grœz ]

noun

  1. Jean Bap·tiste [zhah, n, b, a, -, teest], 1725–1805, French painter.


Greuze

/ ɡrøz /

noun

  1. GreuzeJean Baptiste17251805MFrenchARTS AND CRAFTS: painterARTS AND CRAFTS: painter Jean Baptiste (ʒɑ̃ batist). 1725–1805, French genre and portrait painter


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One might say that he has thought here of Prudhon and Greuze, and joined their study to the cult of Velasquez.

Time after time do his contemporaries praise precisely that sense of virtue in the art of Greuze.

Greuze alone treated him amicably, and even he held out no hopes for his future.

The great upheaval of the Revolution struck Greuze also, and as a painter he became no longer the fashion.

Greuze, like Watteau, marked out a special line of his own; and with him French bourgeois Art reappears once more.

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