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Jean-Baptiste Greuze: The Laundress (Getty Museum Studies on Art) by Colin B Bailey; Jean-Baptiste Greuze is a book available to read on EtoBox.

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Colin B. Bailey Draws From The Recent Renaissance In The Study Of Ancien Regime Art And Society Not Only To Situate This Work In The Context Of Greuze's Early Career And To Consider It Against What Is Known Of The Realities Of Washing Linen In Eighteenth-century Paris, But Also To Suggest How Patronage, Exhibiting, And Marketing Each Played A Significant Role In The Laundress's Early History.--jacket. The Rediscovery Of An Eighteenth Century French Masterpiece -- Greuze's Path To The Salon Of 1761 -- The Laundress Makes A Splash -- The Maidservant's Changing Role In French Genre Painting -- Chardin's Cabinet Paintings And Other Influences On Greuze -- The Brutal Business Of Laundering Linen -- Greuze's Naturalism And The Genre Poissard -- The Female Domestic As Seductress. Colin B. Bailey. Includes Bibliographical References (p. 76-88).

Author

Colin B Bailey; Jean-Baptiste Greuze

Publisher

Los Angeles: J. Paul Getty Museum

Published

2000

Language

EN

ISBN

9780892365647

Subjects

Art, History, Arts