Jean-Baptiste Greuze, 1780 - Study Head of a Woman - fine art print

Description of the artpiece by the French artist Jean-Baptiste Greuze

This more than 240 year old artpiece titled Study Head of a Woman was created by the artist Jean-Baptiste Greuze in 1780. The beyond 240 years old original had the following size: 18 1/2 x 16 in (47 x 40,6 cm). Oil on wood was used by the French artist as the medium of the work of art. Furthermore, the work of art is in the the The Metropolitan Museum of Art's digital 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.. With courtesy of - The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Purchase, 1871 (licensed - public domain). The creditline of the artwork is the following: Purchase, 1871. On top of that, alignment is portrait and has a ratio of 1 : 1.2, which means that the length is 20% shorter than the width. The painter Jean-Baptiste Greuze was a European artist, whose artistic style can be classified as Rococo. The Rococo artist lived for 80 years and was born in 1725 in Tournus, Bourgogne-Franche-Comte, France and died in the year 1805 in Paris, Ile-de-France, France.

General description from The Metropolitan Museum of Art website (© Copyright - by The Metropolitan Museum of Art - The Metropolitan Museum of Art)

This intensely serious and affecting close-up of a model would have been referred to by Greuze's contemporaries as an expressive head, or tête d'expression. Although it has been associated with the imploring female protagonist in several of his moralizing genre scenes, it seems to be a freestanding work. Paintings and drawings of the kind were the vehicle by which the artist explored a wide range of expression and emotion. Study Head is among the works acquired with the museum's founding purchase of 1871.

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