Jean-Baptiste Greuze, 1767 - Cimon and Pero:Roman Charity - fine art print

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When the aged Cimon was forced to starve in prison before his execution, his devoted daughter Pero secretly visited her father to nourish him at her own breast. In his Memorable Acts and Sayings of the Ancient Romans, the ancient Roman historian Valerius Maximus presented Pero's selfless devotion as the highest example of honoring one's parent.

In the 1600s, major artists painted dramatic versions of the popular subject, which Jean-Baptiste Greuze and other artists revived a century later. Closely basing the setting and arrangement of figures on Peter Paul Rubens's version, Greuze probably made this oil sketch as the final stage of preparation for an unexecuted, large-scale painting. Contemporaries admired the rapid execution, vibrant colors, and lively paint handling in Greuze's oil sketches. The critic Denis Diderot lavishly praised his combination of genre and history painting and his public, moralizing purpose.

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This artwork with the title Cimon and Pero:Roman Charity was made by Jean-Baptiste Greuze. Moveover, this piece of art is in the the The J. Paul Getty Museum's digital collection. With courtesy of: The J. Paul Getty Museum (license: public domain).Creditline of the artwork: . What is more, the alignment of the digital reproduction is in landscape format and has a ratio of 1.2 : 1, meaning that the length is 20% longer than the width. Jean-Baptiste Greuze was a painter of French nationality, whose artistic style can be classified as Rococo. The European artist was born in the year 1725 in Tournus, Bourgogne-Franche-Comte, France and died at the age of 80 in the year 1805 in Paris, Ile-de-France, France.

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