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Broken Eggs by Greuze in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, January 2020


Broken Eggs
1756
Object Details
Artist: Jean-Baptiste Greuze (French, Tournus 1725–1805 Paris)
Date: 1756
Medium: Oil on canvas
Dimensions: 28 3/4 x 37 in. (73 x 94 cm)
Classification: Paintings
Credit Line: Bequest of William K. Vanderbilt, 1920
Accession Number: 20.155.8
In moralizing genre subjects such as this, Greuze brilliantly formulated a solution to the impasse that arcane history subjects posed to artists and the public. At the Salon of 1757, a critic even declared that the pose of this young servant girl, whose loss of virginity is symbolized by the broken eggs, was worthy of a history painter. Greuze struck upon such subjects, based in part on seventeenth-century Dutch painting (the girl’s pose actually derives from Frans van Mieris the Elder), while still a student in Rome, though he would spend the next decades stubbornly in pursuit of the official title of history painter.
Text from: www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/436579
1756
Object Details
Artist: Jean-Baptiste Greuze (French, Tournus 1725–1805 Paris)
Date: 1756
Medium: Oil on canvas
Dimensions: 28 3/4 x 37 in. (73 x 94 cm)
Classification: Paintings
Credit Line: Bequest of William K. Vanderbilt, 1920
Accession Number: 20.155.8
In moralizing genre subjects such as this, Greuze brilliantly formulated a solution to the impasse that arcane history subjects posed to artists and the public. At the Salon of 1757, a critic even declared that the pose of this young servant girl, whose loss of virginity is symbolized by the broken eggs, was worthy of a history painter. Greuze struck upon such subjects, based in part on seventeenth-century Dutch painting (the girl’s pose actually derives from Frans van Mieris the Elder), while still a student in Rome, though he would spend the next decades stubbornly in pursuit of the official title of history painter.
Text from: www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/436579
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