Jeanbaptiste Greuze the Laundress - The Laundress

Klappentext Jean-Baptiste Greuze's diminutive picture of a rosy-cheeked girl wringing out her linen was one of fourteen works that he exhibited at the Salon of 1761 in Paris. This lively and engrossing book traces the history of the Getty Museum's painting, compares the work to other laundresses painted by Greuze, and explores social mores and the role of artists model in the eighteenth century. It provides an enlightening account of Greuze's life and times and the influences on his work. Zusammenfassung Jean-Baptiste Greuze created "The Laundress" in 1761. This work traces the history of the painting! compares it to other Greuze paintings of laundresses and places the artist in the social and cultural mores of the period.

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• Authors: . Bailey, .. Bailey, Colin Bailey, Colin B. Bailey
• Publisher: Getty, j.paul, museum publ.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 16.03.2000
• EAN: 9780892365647
• ISBN: 978-0-89236-564-7
• No. of pages: 90
• Series: Getty Museum Studies on Art; Getty Museum Studies on Art; BIBLIOTHECA PAEDIATRICA REF KARGER; Getty Publications - (Yale); Getty Publications – (Yale)
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Art > Antiques