Jean–Baptiste Greuze – The Laundress

The Laundress

Author: .. Bailey Series: Getty Publications – (Yale)

Jean-Baptist Greuze (1725-1805) created this painting in 1761 and the work commanded attention at the Paris Salon the same year. The book traces the history of the painting, compares it to other Greuze paintings of laundresses, and places the artist in the social and cultural mores of the period.

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

About the Author

Colin B. Bailey is chief curator at The Frick Collection, New York. Christopher Riopelle is curator of post-1800 paintings at the National Gallery, London. John House is Walter H. Annenberg Professor at the Courtauld Institute of Art, London. Simon Kelly is Associate Curator of European Painting and Sculpture at the Nelson-Atkins Museum, Kansas City. Robert McDonald Parker is an independent scholar of 19th- and 20th-century European art. John Zarobell is Associate Curator of European Painting and Sculpture before 1900 at the Philadelphia Museum of Art.