Jean-Baptiste Greuze (1725–1805)

• Was a French painter of portraits, genre scenes, and history painting.
• Greuze was born at Tournus, a market town in Burgundy. 
• Edgar Munhall organized the first major exhibition devoted to the artist: "Jean-Baptiste Greuze, 1725-1805" (1976-1977).
• The exhibition opened at the Wadsworth Atheneum in Hartford.
• Then traveled to the California Legion of Honor in San Francisco and the Musée des Beaux-Arts in Dijon.
• In 2002, the first exhibition of Greuze's drawings was held at The Frick Collection in New York.
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