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Jean-Baptiste Greuze: The Laundress

  • Colin B. Bailey

    Denis Diderot said of The Laundress," [She]… is charming; but she's a rascal I wouldn't trust an inch." Jean-Baptiste Greuze's diminutive picture of a rosy-cheeked girl wringing out her linen was one of fourteen works that he exhibited at the Salon of 1761 in Paris. Despite its small size, it commanded tremendous attention from critics who responded to the painting's vivid color and handling, and especially to the flirtatious attitude of the laundress, with her provocative glance and disheveled appearance.

    This lively and engrossing book traces the history of the J. Paul Getty Museum's painting, compares the work to other laundresses painted by Greuze, and explores social mores and the role of the artist's model in the eighteenth century. It provides an enlightening account of Greuze's life and times and the influences on his work.

    Colin B. Bailey is chief curator of The Frick Collection in New York. He is a coauthor of Renoir's Portraits: Impressions of an Age.

    90 pages
    7 1/2 x 9 1/4 inches
    40 color and 32 b/w illustrations
    1 color foldout
    ISBN 978-0-89236-564-7
    paperback

    Getty Publications
    Imprint: J. Paul Getty Museum
    Series: Getty Museum Studies on Art

    1999

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