Jean-Baptiste Greuze
French | 1725 - 1805
Jean-Baptiste Greuze was a French Old Masters painter who was born in 1725. Numerous key galleries and museums such as The Frick Collection have featured Jean-Baptiste Greuze's work in the past.Jean-Baptiste Greuze's work has been offered at auction multiple times, with realized prices ranging from 4 USD to 2,470,000 USD, depending on the size and medium of the artwork. Since 1998 the record price for this artist at auction is 2,470,000 USD for Une jeune fille qui pleure la mort de son oiseau (A girl weeping over her dead bird, sold at Christie's New York in 2024. Jean-Baptiste Greuze has been featured in articles for Daily Art Magazine, The Wall Street Journal and The Arts Society. The most recent article is This Park Avenue Collection Evokes The Opulence and Elegance of a Lost World written for Christie's Daily in March 2024. The artist died in 1805.
Artist's alternative names: Greuze
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This Park Avenue Collection Evokes The Opulence and Elegance of a Lost World
Christie's Daily 27/03/2024A selection of works by masters like Rubens and Michelangelo, alongside distinguished furniture, boasts provenance from some of history’s most illustrious collecting dynasties
When you think about it, most of the events throughout our lives take place in beds. From birth to death, beds are imbued with the ultimate expression of life – love.
An exhibition at London’s Kenwood House on the 18th-century artist Joshua Reynolds—collected by Edward Cecil Guinness, the first Earl of Iveagh—reveals the easy grace with which he painted individuals, who often appear lost in thought.
