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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.
• Greuze was the father of painter Anna-Geneviève Greuze, who was also his pupil.
• One of Greuze's pupils, Madame Le Doux; his daughter and granddaughter, Madame de Valory, also inherited some traditions of his talent.
• On 4 March 1805, he died in the Louvre in great poverty.
• He had been in receipt of considerable wealth, which he had dissipated by extravagance and bad management, he was forced to solicit commissions which his enfeebled powers no longer enabled him to carry out with success.
• The displayed painting is a crop from: Broken Eggs 1756.
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