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Jean-Baptiste Greuze · 1799 vers
Jean-Baptiste Greuze: 1725–1805
Other names (49)
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Biography
Jean-Baptiste Greuze (French pronunciation: [ʒɑ̃ batist ɡʁøz], 21 August 1725 – 4 March 1805) was a French painter of portraits, genre scenes, and history painting.
Greuze was born at Tournus, a market town in Burgundy. He is generally said to have formed his own talent; at an early age his inclinations, though thwarted by his father, were encouraged by a Lyonnese artist named Grandon, or Grondom, who enjoyed during his lifetime considerable reputation as a portrait-painter. Grandon not only persuaded Greuze's father to give way to his son's wishes, and permit the boy to accompany him as his pupil to Lyon, but, when at a later date he left Lyon for Paris, Grandon carried young Greuze with him.
Settled in Paris, Greuze worked from the living model in the school of the Royal Academy, but did not attract the attention of his teachers; and when he produced his first picture, Le Père de famille expliquant la Bible a ses enfants, considerable doubt was felt and shown as to his share in its production.
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Influenced by
- Charles-Joseph Natoireeditorial inference
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- Charles Grandoneditorial inference
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Later influence
- Claude Hoineditorial inference
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- Constance Mayereditorial inference
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Wikidata assertion retained for review; its references, if supplied, have not been independently verified. Teaching is recorded separately and does not itself establish artistic influence.
- Jean-François Janineteditorial inference
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- Jean Massardeditorial inference
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Wikidata assertion retained for review; its references, if supplied, have not been independently verified. Teaching is recorded separately and does not itself establish artistic influence.
- Rev. Matthew William Peterseditorial inference
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The biography identifies Jean-Baptiste Greuze as an artistic influence on William Peters (painter). Greuze concerns the later French encounter; Vestier and Boilly are named as people Peters met. Explicit secondary-source assertion; independent historical verification remains pending.
Artworks by year
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Museums & collections
Documented holdings of works attributed to Jean-Baptiste Greuze. Check the museum’s record for current display information.
- musée Greuze - hôtel-Dieu — Tournus34 recorded works
- Musée du Louvre17 recorded works
- musée des beaux-arts et d'archéologie — Besançon16 recorded works
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art13 recorded works
- musée Condé — Chantilly7 recorded works
- National Gallery of Art7 recorded works
- Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts6 recorded works
- Art Institute of Chicago4 recorded works
- Statens Museum for Kunst (SMK)4 recorded works
- The Cleveland Museum of Art4 recorded works
- musée des beaux-arts — Marseille3 recorded works
- musée national Magnin — Dijon3 recorded works
- Palais-musée des Archevêques de Narbonne — Narbonne3 recorded works
- musée de la Chartreuse — Douai2 recorded works
- musée des beaux-arts — Lille2 recorded works
- musée des Beaux-Arts — Nantes2 recorded works
- Minneapolis Institute of Art1 recorded work
- musée Boucher de Perthes — Abbeville1 recorded work
- musée Crozatier — Le Puy-en-Velay1 recorded work
- Musée de Grenoble1 recorded work
- musée de l'hôtel Sandelin — Saint-Omer1 recorded work
- musée des beaux-arts — Bordeaux1 recorded work
- Musée des Beaux-Arts de la ville de Paris1 recorded work
- musée des beaux-arts et galerie David-d'Angers — Angers1 recorded work
- musée Grobet-Labadié — Marseille1 recorded work
- musée Hyacinthe Rigaud — Perpignan1 recorded work
- musée municipal — Louhans-Châteaurenaud1 recorded work
- National Museum in Warsaw1 recorded work
- Rijksmuseum1 recorded work
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- Wikidata (CC0)
- National Gallery of Art
- Museum authority country review
- Pantheon 2025 — Datawheel (CC BY-SA 4.0)
- Museum authority country review
- Rijksmuseum: independently verified selected paintings
- Statens Museum for Kunst (SMK)
- Polish museum and gallery creator authorities
- Pantheon 2025 — Datawheel (CC BY-SA 4.0)
- Expanded artwork research — official museum evidence
- Pantheon 2025 — Datawheel (CC BY-SA 4.0)
- Louvre painter identity and WikiArt profile links