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THE QUEEN’S GALLERY.
subject, and an engraving by Vivares, both differing in
some of the details from this picture.
C. 3 ft. by 4 ft. {Smith’s Cat. 136.)
GREUZE (Jean Baptiste), b. 1734 ; d. 1807.
[This French painter of conversation pieces, and scenes from do-
mestic life, has the merit of being at least an original painter, and
excellent in his way; and originality and excellence in an inferior
department are better than imitation and mediocrity in the highest.
He was the inventor of his own manner, which was at first ridiculed
as trivial; the young painter, discouraged, set off to Rome, looked at
Michael Angelo and Raphael, and attempted heroics;—failed utterly,
and, returning to the peculiar bent of his own genius, became himself a
model in his way. But though the pathos and naivete of expression
in some of his best pictures can scarcely be exceeded, and the
dramatic effect, in some of his scenes, is very attractive, he is de-
cidedly national in taste, and some of his subjects recall, too much,
the grouping and sentiment of a French vaudeville ; nor is the fashion
which now obtains for his pictures such extravagant prices a pleasing
sign of the prevalent taste.]
2 La irompette.—A mother with three children in the 1
interior of a cottage. She is rebuking, by a look, the eldest
boy, lest he should disturb the sleep of the younger by
blowing his penny-trumpet, evidently a new toy. There
is great truth of expression in this little cottage incident;
the colouring, is very lovely and tender, and the precision
of drawing in all the forms, and the careful execution,
distinguish this beautiful little picture from those sketchy
bits of sentiment by Greuze, so commonly met with.
At a sale at Paris, in 1783, it sold for 961. Purchased
by the king in 1815, for 180 guineas.
P. 1 ft. 11 in. by 1 ft. 7 in. Engraved by L. Cars, under the title
“ La Silence.” {Smith’s Cat. 57.)
GRANET (Frangois Marius). Born at Aix, in Provence: now
living at Paris, (1842.)
[A French painter of architecture and interiors, remarkable for his
skdl in effects of light and perspective. He emulates Peter de Hooghe
THE QUEEN’S GALLERY.
subject, and an engraving by Vivares, both differing in
some of the details from this picture.
C. 3 ft. by 4 ft. {Smith’s Cat. 136.)
GREUZE (Jean Baptiste), b. 1734 ; d. 1807.
[This French painter of conversation pieces, and scenes from do-
mestic life, has the merit of being at least an original painter, and
excellent in his way; and originality and excellence in an inferior
department are better than imitation and mediocrity in the highest.
He was the inventor of his own manner, which was at first ridiculed
as trivial; the young painter, discouraged, set off to Rome, looked at
Michael Angelo and Raphael, and attempted heroics;—failed utterly,
and, returning to the peculiar bent of his own genius, became himself a
model in his way. But though the pathos and naivete of expression
in some of his best pictures can scarcely be exceeded, and the
dramatic effect, in some of his scenes, is very attractive, he is de-
cidedly national in taste, and some of his subjects recall, too much,
the grouping and sentiment of a French vaudeville ; nor is the fashion
which now obtains for his pictures such extravagant prices a pleasing
sign of the prevalent taste.]
2 La irompette.—A mother with three children in the 1
interior of a cottage. She is rebuking, by a look, the eldest
boy, lest he should disturb the sleep of the younger by
blowing his penny-trumpet, evidently a new toy. There
is great truth of expression in this little cottage incident;
the colouring, is very lovely and tender, and the precision
of drawing in all the forms, and the careful execution,
distinguish this beautiful little picture from those sketchy
bits of sentiment by Greuze, so commonly met with.
At a sale at Paris, in 1783, it sold for 961. Purchased
by the king in 1815, for 180 guineas.
P. 1 ft. 11 in. by 1 ft. 7 in. Engraved by L. Cars, under the title
“ La Silence.” {Smith’s Cat. 57.)
GRANET (Frangois Marius). Born at Aix, in Provence: now
living at Paris, (1842.)
[A French painter of architecture and interiors, remarkable for his
skdl in effects of light and perspective. He emulates Peter de Hooghe