Mark Ledbury
Sedaine, Greuze, and the Boundaries of Genre
Voltaire Foundation,
1999.
366 pp.; 50 b/w ills.
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August 22, 2000
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Writing on the Salon of 1755, the abbé de la Porte concluded his enthusiastic review of Jean-Baptiste Greuze with the phrase, “One would like to know him.” (quoted in Munhall, Jean-Baptiste Greuze, 11). This comment is ambiguous, since, despite his longing to know Greuze, it was apparently clear to the abbé that the work and the man were not transparent reflections of each other. For modern audiences, such longing is puzzling: we think we know...