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The Village Bride by Jean-Baptiste Greuze.. The Salon of 1761 was an art exhibition held at the Louvre in Paris.Staged during the reign of Louis XV and at a time when the Seven Years' War against Britain and Prussia was at its height, it reflected the taste of the Ancien régime during the mid-eighteenth century.
Charles-Guillaume Alexandre – George et Georgette; Johann Christian Bach – Catone in Utica, W.G 2; Pasquale Cafaro – Ipermestra (revised version, premiered Dec. 26 in Naples)
The Village Bride (French: L'Accordée de Village) is a painting by the French artist Jean-Baptiste Greuze, created in 1761. It is now in the Louvre, in Paris. The work was first exhibited at the Salon of 1761, where it was unanimously praised by the critics, notably by Diderot. It was the first example of the 'moral painting' genre, to which ...
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Greuze likely began working on The Laundress sometime in July 1761, around the same time as L'Accordée de village.In drawing upon Dutch and Flemish cabinet paintings, Greuze may have found inspiration in the style of Rembrandt, and other artists and paintings such as Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin's The Kitchen Maid (1738), Gerrit Dou's Girl Chopping Onions (1646), Gabriël Metsu's The ...
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