Greuze
Americannoun
noun
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From Jean-Baptiste Greuze's 1756 painting "Broken Eggs" and Claude Monet's 1907 painting "Still Life with Eggs" to Giovanni Battista Recco's "Still Life with Chickens and Eggs" and the Yeah Yeah Yeahs' cover art for their 2009 studio album "It's Blitz!," there's no shortage of egg iconography.
From Salon
In 1760, a group of Italian comedic actors recreated Jean-Baptiste Greuze’s painting “The Village Betrothal in Les Noces d’Arlequin” as part of larger theatrical performance, and in 1781, children at the Royal Palace of Versailles supposedly participated in a series of tableaux vivants inspired by the paintings of Jacques-Louis David and Eugène Isabey.
From New York Times
Business was conducted in cozy, refined rooms adorned with Louis XIV to Louis XVI furniture and favorite works by French artists Greuze and Fragonard.
From Washington Post
In one room we see Jean-Baptiste Greuze, often considered an irredeemably sentimental painter, repurpose the theatrical clarity of painters such as David for comic effect.
From Washington Post
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
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