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  • "Even the trivial fact that in the year 1865 a picture by Greuze entitled La Jeune Fille a l'Agneau fetched one million two hundred thousand francs -- more than forty thousand pounds -- at the Portalis sale may start a train of reflection in your mind."

    Chennai 2010

  • Several volumes on art history, including works on Greuze, Watteau and Jacques-Louis David.

    Anita Brookner. 2009

  • A 1774 painting, Le Gteau des Rois, by Jean-Baptiste Greuze depicts the tradition.

    Let Me Eat Cake Leslie F. Miller 2009

  • Jean-Baptiste Greuze painted the poetry of everyday life with a grandeur and heroism that made him welcome in intellectual and revolutionary French circles.

    Let Me Eat Cake Leslie F. Miller 2009

  • She reclines on an armchair, head thrown back, echoing the pose of the boy in the Greuze painting that hangs on the wall behind her.

    The Things Yves Loved Collins, Amy Fine 2009

  • A 1774 painting, Le Gteau des Rois, by Jean-Baptiste Greuze depicts the tradition.

    Let Me Eat Cake Leslie F. Miller 2009

  • She initially gained eminence in the field of art history, with a passionate espousal of French eighteenth century painters such as Watteau, Greuze and David.

    Anita Brookner. 2009

  • Jean-Baptiste Greuze painted the poetry of everyday life with a grandeur and heroism that made him welcome in intellectual and revolutionary French circles.

    Let Me Eat Cake Leslie F. Miller 2009

  • I feel as if Greuze is giving direction as to the right and wrong sense of female grief.

    A Moment with Greuze Heather Carroll 2008

  • "The Pleasure of Taste — French Painting at the Time of Madame de Pompadour" exhibits 60 paintings by the French masters Boucher, Greuze, Chardin and Fragonard, all influenced in style by the patronage of the French courtesan Madame de Pompadour.

    Time Off Europe Calendar 2008

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