Greuze
Americannoun
noun
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Dr. Munhall was regarded as an expert on the 18th-century French painter Jean-Baptiste Greuze, and in 1976 he organized what was described as the first exhibition devoted to him.
From New York Times • Oct. 20, 2016
The company claims its Greuze can age and improve for more than 20 years.
From BusinessWeek • Oct. 31, 2011
In place of Boucher he preferred another contemporary, Jean-Baptiste Greuze.
From The Guardian • Jan. 28, 2011
As the French painter Jean-Baptiste Greuze, better known for his soppy portraits and scenes with moralizing intentions, turned to antiquity in the 1760s, he selected a little-known episode recounted by the Roman historian Dion Cassius.
From New York Times • Dec. 3, 2010
Strange how like she is to that famous Greuze in the Louvre,--'La Cruche cass�e'!
From Erlach Court by Schubin, Ossip
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