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| Detail from Portrait of a Lady in Turkish Fancy Dress (1790) by Jean-Baptiste Greuze |
It's been a long while since last we celebrated the birth date of an "old master" type of painter. So, let's take a brief opportunity to appreciate the works of Jean-Baptiste Greuze. He's not the most famous of ancien regime painters, but I like his work nearly just as much as his more famous contemporaries.
And, of course, I'm loco for rococo. ;-)
Rather than focusing on his more popular works, I've posted up some works from the local Los Angeles collections.
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| Detail from The Laundress (1761) by Jean-Baptiste Greuze |
He was born on August 21, 1725. Let's appreciate the conjunction of splendor and "simplicity" within Greuze's aesthetic vision.
