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The Broken Pitcher, oil on canvas by Jean-Baptiste Greuze, c. 1772–73; in the Louvre, Paris. 108 × 86 cm.
The Broken Pitcher, oil on canvas by Jean-Baptiste Greuze, c. 1772–73; in the Louvre, Paris. 108 × 86 cm.

Jean-Baptiste Greuze

French painter
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Jean-Baptiste Greuze (born Aug. 21, 1725, Tournus, France—died March 21, 1805, Paris) was a French genre and portrait painter who initiated a mid-18th-century vogue for sentimental and moralizing anecdotes in paintings. Greuze studied first at Lyon and afterward at the Royal Academy in Paris. He first exhibited at the Salon of 1755 and won an immediate success with his moralizing genre painting of Father Reading the Bible to His Children (1755). Although Greuze’s attention at...

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