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JEAN-BAPTISTE GREUZE. Broken Eggs

Broken Eggs. Artist: Jean-Baptiste Greuze (French, Tournus 1725-1805 Paris). Dimensions: 28 3/4 x 37 in. (73 x 94 cm). Date: 1756.
<i>Broken Eggs</i> attracted favorable comment when exhibited at the Paris Salon of 1757. One critic noted that the young serving girl had a noble pose worthy of a history painter.
The canvas was painted in Rome, but the principal source may have been a seventeenth-century Dutch work by Frans van Mieris the Elder (State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg), which Greuze would have known from an engraving. The broken eggs symbolize the loss of the girl's virginity.

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Author: JEAN-BAPTISTE GREUZE (1725-1805)

Title: Broken Eggs

Caption: Broken Eggs. Artist: Jean-Baptiste Greuze (French, Tournus 1725-1805 Paris). Dimensions: 28 3/4 x 37 in. (73 x 94 cm). Date: 1756. Broken Eggs attracted favorable comment when exhibited at the Paris Salon of 1757. One critic noted that the young serving girl had a noble pose worthy of a history painter. The canvas was painted in Rome, but the principal source may have been a seventeenth-century Dutch work by Frans van Mieris the Elder (State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg), which Greuze would have known from an engraving. The broken eggs symbolize the loss of the girl's virginity.

Technique/material: OIL ON CANVAS

Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA

Credit: Album

Image size: 6065 × 4785 px | 83.0 MB

Print size: 51.4 × 40.5 cm | 2387.8 × 1883.9 in (300 dpi)

Keywords: CANVAS • EUROPE • EUROPEAN PAINTINGS • FRANCE • JEAN-BAPTISTE GREUZE • METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART, NEW YORK, USA • OIL ON CANVAS • OIL PAINT • OIL PAINTING • OIL PAINTINGC PIO DI SAVOIA • OLI PAINTING • PAINTINGS