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
His readers were searching too, which was why they too loved 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
With the advice of Greuze he took up portrait painting, quickly became the fashion, and laid by in a few years a fair competency.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 2 "Constantine Pavlovich" to "Convention" by Various
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