6. Greuze's Expressive Heads
Melissa Percival
From The Appearance of Character: Physiognomy and Facial Expression in Eighteenth-Century France (1999), pp. 113-30, doi:10.59860/td.c8ca40c
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| Part of the book: The Appearance of Character Melissa Percival MHRA Texts and Dissertations 47 W. S. Maney & Son Ltd for the Modern Humanities Research Association EnlightenmentFrenchPhilosophyopen Abstract. Jean-Baptiste Greuze (1725-1805) is famous as a painter of expression. His genre paintings are seen as evocative tableaux of domestic drama which record the gamut of the human passions and which seemingly lend themselves to clear and unambiguous moral readings. In a different vein, there are his numerous studies ofyoung girls which mingle the sentimental and the erotic, and which, superficially at least, recall aspects of the Prix Caylus. Greuze is also known for his têtes d'expression, even if the definition of such a type of painting is not always clear. Full text. This contribution is published as Open Access and can be downloaded as a PDF, or viewed as a PDF in your web browser, here: |
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