La Simplicité (Simplicity) (Q72753434)
Label from: English (en)
artist:
Jean-Baptiste Greuze (Q347139)
collection:
Kimbell Art Museum (Q1741629)
location:
Kimbell Art Museum (Q1741629)
exhibition history:
America Collects Eighteenth-Century French Painting (Q115965480)
instance of:
painting (Q3305213)
Google Arts & Culture asset ID:
ZAGHSw3FCrPJYQ
catalog URL: https://www.kimbellart.org/collection-object/la-simplicit%C3%A9-simplicity
information from the Kimbell Art Museum catalog
description: Jean-Baptiste Greuze achieved fame for his morally uplifting narrative paintings, but he was equally adept working in the pastoral, erotic mode brought to refinement by François Boucher. In 1756, while sojourning in Rome, Greuze received support from the Marquis de Marigny, who commissioned from him two oval paintings for the Versailles apartment of his sister Madame de Pompadour, mistress of King Louis XV, leaving the choice of subject to the artist. Greuze painted
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