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Jean-Baptiste Greuze : The laundress / Colin B. Bailey.
Fine Arts Library ND553.G8 A69 2000
Available
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Bailey, Colin B.
- Series:
- Getty Museum studies on art
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Greuze, Jean-Baptiste, 1725-1805. Laundress (Getty Museum).
- Greuze, Jean-Baptiste.
- Laundresses in art.
- Laundresses--France--Paris--History--18th century.
- Laundresses.
- J. Paul Getty Museum.
- History.
- France--Paris.
- Physical Description:
- 92 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm.
- Other Title:
- Laundress
- Place of Publication:
- Los Angeles : [J. Paul Getty Museum], [2000]
- Summary:
- This series introduces individual works or small groups of closely related works in the Museum's collections to a broad public. Each monograph includes a close discussion of its subject as well as a detailed analysis of the broader context in which the work was created, considering relevant historical, cultural, and chronological issues.
- Traces the history of the painting, compares the work to other laundresses painted by Greuze, and explores social mores and the role of the artist's model in the eighteenth century.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 76-88).
- ISBN:
- 0892365641
- OCLC:
- 42810740
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