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Greuze - Alys Eyre Macklin
Alys Eyre Macklin
Greuze
Published by Good Press, 2022
goodpress@okpublishing.info
EAN 4064066139940
Table of Contents
CHAPTER I EARLY DAYS AND FIRST SUCCESS
CHAPTER II THE TIMES IN WHICH GREUZE LIVED
CHAPTER III GREUZE’S MORAL PICTURES
CHAPTER IV THE PICTURES BY WHICH WE KNOW GREUZE
CHAPTER V THE VANITY OF GREUZE
CHAPTER VI THE BROKEN PITCHER
AND OTHER WELL-KNOWN PICTURES
CHAPTER VII RUIN AND DEATH
CHAPTER VIII THE ART OF GREUZE
CHAPTER I
EARLY DAYS AND FIRST SUCCESS
Table of Contents
Few names suggest so much beauty as that of Greuze.
Greuze
—a Greuze
—you have only to hear the word and there rises before your mental vision a radiant procession of maidens each lovelier than the last, with the blue of a spring sky in their shining eyes, rosy blood flushing delicate cheeks, soft silken hair escaping in gold-touched curls at temples where the blue veins show, lips like dewy carnations, rounded necks and curving bosoms that suggest all the sweets of June. A veritable garden of girls
in the first fresh bloom of budding womanhood; and they come to you not so much as painted pictures as delicate visions breathed on canvas from which they might at any moment tremble into pulsing life.
Yet the Greuze to whom we owe this exquisite series was first known as the painter of pictures of a very different kind. Before speaking of these let us begin at the beginning, by seeing when and under what conditions the child who was to become the poet-painter of a certain type of womanhood first saw the world he was destined to enrich.
Born at Tournus, a little town near Macon in France, on August 21, 1725, the early life of Jean Baptiste Greuze curiously resembles in its broad lines those of many other well-known artists. His parents were humble people who lived in the tiny house at Tournus, now decorated with a commemorative plaque; the father an overman slater; and the godparents, who play such an important part in the life of the French child, respectively a slater and a baker. The father seems to have been ambitious, for he resolved to take his son into an evidently expanding business, not as a workman,