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
