Jean-Baptiste Greuze, 1767 - Aegina Visited by Jupiter - fine art print

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The painting was painted by the male French artist Jean-Baptiste Greuze. The painting measures the size: 57 7/8 x 77 1/8 in (147 x 195,9 cm) and was painted with the technique oil on canvas. Nowadays, this artpiece belongs to the The Metropolitan Museum of Art's art collection, which is one of the world's largest and finest art museums, which includes more than two million works of art spanning five thousand years of world culture, from prehistory to the present and from every part of the globe.. The public domain piece of art is provided with courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Gift of Harry N. Abrams and Purchase, Joseph Pulitzer Bequest, Pfeiffer, Fletcher, and Rogers Funds, 1970. Creditline of the artwork: Gift of Harry N. Abrams and Purchase, Joseph Pulitzer Bequest, Pfeiffer, Fletcher, and Rogers Funds, 1970. The alignment of the digital reproduction is landscape and has a side ratio of 4 : 3, which means that the length is 33% longer than the width. The painter Jean-Baptiste Greuze was an artist from France, whose art style can be attributed mainly to Rococo. The European artist was born in the year 1725 in Tournus, Bourgogne-Franche-Comte, France and passed away at the age of 80 in 1805.

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What does the website of the The Metropolitan Museum of Art say about the 18th century artwork from the painter Jean-Baptiste Greuze? (© - by The Metropolitan Museum of Art - www.metmuseum.org)

The young woman may be Aegina, daughter of the river god Asopus, who was visited by Jupiter in the guise of fire and carried off by him in the form of an eagle. This unfinished picture was perhaps an attempt by Greuze at a reception piece for the French Royal Academy. In 1767 he was barred by the Academy from exhibiting in the Salon for having failed to fulfill this requirement. The same year, in a letter to Diderot, Greuze wrote that he "should very much like to paint a woman totally nude without offending modesty."