Colin B. Bailey, "Jean-Baptiste Greuze: The Laundress"
Colin B. Bailey, "Jean-Baptiste Greuze: The Laundress"
Publisher: J. Paul Getty | 2000 | ISBN: 0892365641 | English | PDF | 98 pages | 7.8 Mb
Publisher: J. Paul Getty | 2000 | ISBN: 0892365641 | English | PDF | 98 pages | 7.8 Mb
Before its acquisition by the Getty Museum in 1983, Greuze’s eighteenth-century masterpiece La Blanchisseuse (The Laundress) had “disappeared” from circulation into private collections and become virtually unknown to twentieth-century audiences. In this fascinating monograph, author Colin B. Bailey draws from the recent renaissance in the study of Ancien Regime art and society not only to situate this work in the context of Greuze’s early career and to consider it against what is known of the realities of washing linen in eighteenth-century Paris, but also to suggest how patronage, exhibiting, and marketing each played a significant role in The Laundress’s early history.
Jean-Baptiste Greuze: The Laundress is part of the Getty Museum Studies on Art series, designed to introduce individual artworks or small groups of related works to a broad public with an interest in the history of art.
Each monograph is written by a leading scholar and features a close discussion of its subject as well as a detailed analysis of the broader historical and cultural context in which the work was created.
The Rediscovery of an Eighteenth-Century French Masterpiece
Greuze’s Path to the Salon of 1761
The Laundress Makes a Splash
The Maidservant’s Changing Role in French Genre Painting
Chardin’s Cabinet Paintings and Other Influences on Greuze
The Brutal Business of Laundering Linen
Greuze’s Naturalism and the Genre Poissard
The Female Domestic as Seductress
Notes
Acknowledgements
Greuze’s Path to the Salon of 1761
The Laundress Makes a Splash
The Maidservant’s Changing Role in French Genre Painting
Chardin’s Cabinet Paintings and Other Influences on Greuze
The Brutal Business of Laundering Linen
Greuze’s Naturalism and the Genre Poissard
The Female Domestic as Seductress
Notes
Acknowledgements
Colin B. Bailey, "Jean-Baptiste Greuze: The Laundress"
