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enfants and Le Paralytique servi par ses enfants, which caused him
to be received as an Academician. Others of this type of pathetic, or
homely, story-telling in paint followed. This, then new style of art,
won Greuze many admirers, among them Diderot. In 1756 Greuze
went to Rome for two years and on his return to Paris began to exhibit
his now famous busts and heads of beautiful young girls. Between
1755 and 1769 Greuze exhibited about one hundred and twenty pic-
tures at the Louvre and, after the Revolution, about thirty works.
He was entirely broken by the Revolution and died in 1805 in poverty
and oblivion.
YOUNG GIRL.
Jean Baptiste Greuze Collection of
(1725-1805). Mr. William Randolph Hearst.
We hardly know which face to admire the most—that of the little
girl or that of her little dog with the bright, intelligent eyes, so loving
and so trustful.
This picture (14 x 14 inches) Greuze has painted with the tenderest
care,—depicting the budding beauty of the child; and he.has, more-
over, used the swirling curves in such a distinguished manner that we
think of the circles and the curves in Raphael’s Madonna della Sedia
in the Pitti. There is a gentle sadness in the face of the little girl of
which the little companion and friend, so confidently nestled in her
loving arms, seems to be conscious; and, perhaps, a little worried as
well.
LA MARQUISE DE BESONS TUNING A GUITAR
Jean Baptiste Greuze Collection of
(1725-1805). Dr. and Mrs. Henry Barton Jacobs.
At the Salon of 1757 Greuze exhibited this portrait under the title
of Madame X Tuning a Guitar. Many who saw the picture recognized
Madame X as Anne de Bricqueville de la Luzerne, wife of Jacques
Bazin, Marquis de Besons, a very prominent and powerful lord of the
enfants and Le Paralytique servi par ses enfants, which caused him
to be received as an Academician. Others of this type of pathetic, or
homely, story-telling in paint followed. This, then new style of art,
won Greuze many admirers, among them Diderot. In 1756 Greuze
went to Rome for two years and on his return to Paris began to exhibit
his now famous busts and heads of beautiful young girls. Between
1755 and 1769 Greuze exhibited about one hundred and twenty pic-
tures at the Louvre and, after the Revolution, about thirty works.
He was entirely broken by the Revolution and died in 1805 in poverty
and oblivion.
YOUNG GIRL.
Jean Baptiste Greuze Collection of
(1725-1805). Mr. William Randolph Hearst.
We hardly know which face to admire the most—that of the little
girl or that of her little dog with the bright, intelligent eyes, so loving
and so trustful.
This picture (14 x 14 inches) Greuze has painted with the tenderest
care,—depicting the budding beauty of the child; and he.has, more-
over, used the swirling curves in such a distinguished manner that we
think of the circles and the curves in Raphael’s Madonna della Sedia
in the Pitti. There is a gentle sadness in the face of the little girl of
which the little companion and friend, so confidently nestled in her
loving arms, seems to be conscious; and, perhaps, a little worried as
well.
LA MARQUISE DE BESONS TUNING A GUITAR
Jean Baptiste Greuze Collection of
(1725-1805). Dr. and Mrs. Henry Barton Jacobs.
At the Salon of 1757 Greuze exhibited this portrait under the title
of Madame X Tuning a Guitar. Many who saw the picture recognized
Madame X as Anne de Bricqueville de la Luzerne, wife of Jacques
Bazin, Marquis de Besons, a very prominent and powerful lord of the