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Greuze

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Greuze  (grz), Jean Baptiste 1725-1805.
French painter of moralistic genre works, such as The Paralytic Tended by His Children (1763).
Greuze (French) [grøz]
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(Biographies / Greuze, Jean Baptiste (1725-1805) M, French, ARTS AND CRAFTS: painter, ARTS AND CRAFTS: painter) Jean Baptiste (ʒɑ̃ batist). 1725-1805, French genre and portrait painter
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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.
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Slowly he threaded his way amongst the elegant Louis Quinze furniture, examining as though for the first time the beautiful old tapestry, the Sevres china, the Chippendale table, which was priceless, the exquisite portraits painted by Greuze, and the mysterious green twilights and grey dawns of Corot.
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