Greuze

[ grœz ]

/ grœz /

noun

Jean Bap·tiste

[zhahn ba-teest] /ʒɑ̃ baˈtist/, 1725–1805, French painter.

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Examples from the Web for greuze

Decidedly, too, Greuze "invests his lessons of bourgeois morality with sensuous attractions."
A Popular Handbook to the National Gallery, Volume I, Foreign Schools|Various
Girls confessing their frailty to their parents had been previously painted by Greuze.
The History of Modern Painting, Volume 2 (of 4)|Richard Muther
The populace fancies Greuze and his sentimental heads of young girls.
A Text-Book of the History of Painting|John C. Van Dyke
Yet the Greuze to whom we owe this exquisite series was first known as the painter of pictures of a very different kind.
Greuze|Alys Eyre Macklin

Fairfax took occasion in the portrait room to tell her that she looked like a Greuze.
Fairfax and His Pride|Marie Van Vorst

British Dictionary definitions for greuze

Greuze

/ (French ɡrøz) /

noun

Jean Baptiste (ʒɑ̃ batist). 1725–1805, French genre and portrait painter

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