Jean-Baptiste Greuze (Toumus, August 21, 1725 – Paris, March 4, 1805) was a French painter. He died in the Louvre in great poverty. He had been in receipt of considerable wealth, which he had dissipated by extravagance and bad management (as well as embezzlement by his wife), so that during his closing years he was forced even to solicit commissions which his enfeebled powers no longer enabled him to carry out with success.
[Oil on canvas, 128 x 160.5 cm]
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