By Hilton Kramer 6/03/02 12:00am

Jean-Baptiste Greuze, Domestic Draftsman, A Man Out of Time

It sometimes seems as if Jean-Baptiste Greuze (1725-1805) was born into the wrong century. In the company of his more illustrious 18th-century contemporaries-Watteau, Boucher, Fragonard, even Chardin-Greuze is indeed something of an oddity. Whereas these revered masters tended to devote their art to an imagery of pleasure and romance, Greuze was much occupied with what Read More

By Hilton Kramer 3/30/98 12:00am

Met Revives Two Unknowns Who Deserved Their Fate

Exhibitions that fill a gap in our firsthand knowledge of art are always to be welcomed. But are they always to be enjoyed? That, more often than not, is too much to hope for. In art, after all, as in other realms of human endeavor, obscure reputations are sometimes well deserved.

This would seem to Read More