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Title: Greuze
Year: 1907 (1900s)
Authors: Macklin, Alys Eyre
Subjects: Greuze, Jean Baptiste, 1725-1805
Publisher: London, T.C. (and) E.C. Jack
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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esh bloom of budding womanhood; andthey come to you not so much as paintedpictures as delicate visions breathed oncanvas from which they might at anymoment tremble into pulsing life. Yet the Greuze to whom we owe thisexquisite series was first known as thepainter of pictures of a very different kind.Before speaking of these let us begin at thebeginning, by seeing when and under whatconditions the child who was to become thepoet-painter of a certain type of woman-hood first saw the world he was destinedto enrich. Born at Tournus, a little town near Macon PLATE II.—LINNOCENCE TENANT DEUXPIGEONS Llnnocence tenant deux Pigeons, or *Innocence holdingtwo Pigeons, is a typical example of the eyes Greuze never tiredof painting, large innocent orbs with a sparkle that suggests themorning sun on flowers wet with dew. The moist half-open lipsyou also find in most of his g^irl-heads. The lovely colour schemeis particularly happy even for Greuze. The original is in theWallace Collection, London.
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1 GREUZE 15 in France, on August 21, 1725, the early lifeof Jean Baptiste Greuze curiously resemblesin its broad lines those of many other well-known artists. His parents were humblepeople who lived in the tiny house at Tournus,now decorated with a commemorative plaque;the father an overman slater; and the god-parents, who play such an important part inthe life of the French child, respectively aslater and a baker. The father seems tohave been ambitious, for he resolved to takehis son into an evidently expanding business,not as a workman, but as architect. At theusual early age, however, the childs vocationdeclared itself. It was in vain the father,alarmed by symptoms that threatened to dis-arrange his plans, took materials from himand then whipped him for making picturesall over the walls—anywhere, everjrwhere.The boy cared for nothing but drawing of akind that did not fall in with the cherishedarchitectural idea, and after many struggles i6 GREUZE he won the day by giving his fath

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