Jean-baptiste greuze broken eggs

The broken vessel Broken Eggs is an oil on canvas painting by French artist Jean-Baptiste Greuze, created in It is held in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, in New York, which acquired it in [1].

Jean-baptiste greuze on view Title: Broken Eggs. Artist: Jean-Baptiste Greuze (French, Tournus – Paris) Date: Medium: Oil on canvas. Dimensions: 28 3/4 x 37 in. (73 x 94 cm) Classification: Paintings. Credit Line: Bequest of William K. Vanderbilt, Object Number:

Broken Eggs is an Artist: Jean-Baptiste Greuze (French, Tournus – Paris) Date: Medium: Oil on canvas. Dimensions: 28 3/4 x 37 in. (73 x 94 cm) Classification: Paintings. Credit Line: Bequest of William K. Vanderbilt, Accession Number:

Broken Eggs, 1756 Jean-Baptiste Greuze In Broken Eggs, the behavior of the blond boy in the lower right corner elucidates the event. His elliptical expression (for what can so young a child know?) encourages the viewer to think darkly about the connection between the pretty girl, the remonstrating crone, and the dominant young male.

1960 Art Print "Broken Eggs"

Broken Eggs. Richly detailed, Greuze's painting is centered on a young woman, her hands clasped, seated in a sparsely furnished room. Beside her is a basket and several broken eggs scattered across the floor.

Title: Broken Eggs; Creator: Jean-Baptiste Title: Broken Eggs; Creator: Jean-Baptiste Greuze; Date Created: ; Physical Dimensions: 28 3/4 x 37 in. (73 x 94 cm) Type: Painting; External Link.

JEAN-BAPTISTE GREUZE BROKEN EGGS LITHO PRINT 1. Jean-Baptiste Greuze (), Broken Eggs, signed and dated Oil on canvas, /4 x 37 in. (73 x 94 cm.). The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Bequest of William K. Vanderbilt, 2. Greuze, Boy with a Broken Egg. Red chalk heightened with white, /6 x lo3/4 in. ( x cm.). Vi-.

In moralizing genre subjects Broken Eggs attracted favorable comment when exhibited at the Paris Salon of One critic noted that the young serving girl had a noble pose worthy of a history 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.