Tag: Jean-Baptiste Greuze

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  • La Gazette Drouot

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    Greuze and His Beautiful Heads

    The order of values was respected, with the goddess Diana towering over the pretty nymph Callisto. Jean-Baptiste Greuze (1725-1805), Diane, 1761, oil on canvas, 46.5 x 38.5 cm/18.30 x 15.15 in.Result: €520,000 Jean-Baptiste Greuze certainly wasn't expected in this field. Nevertheless, the painter whose work reflects a certain return to morality has given his…

  • La Gazette Drouot

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    Success for Greuze, Vallayer-Coster and Bruegel

    This sale was a delightful invitation to explore centuries of the past and indulge in reverie—whatever Molière might think. Jean-Baptiste Greuze (1725-1805), Rêverie, oil on canvas, 61.5 x 52 cm/24.2 x 20.5 in.Result: €322,000 Unlike the young model here, bidders’ minds were not in the clouds but decidedly in the real world, concentrated…

  • AuctionDaily

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    Vignali, Greuze, and Netscher Headline Bonhams’ Old Master Paintings Sale

    The term “Old Master” artists refers to European creators active between the 1300s and 1800s. The group includes some of the best-recognized artists from the Early Renaissance through the Romantic period. Their works contain references to classical mythology, human history, and daily life and customs through the ages. The upcoming…

    Vignali, Greuze, and Netscher Headline Bonhams Old Master Paintings Sale1

  • Art Daily

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    Giant killer: Florentine masterpiece at Bonhams Old Master Paintings Sale

    David with the Head of Goliath by Jacopo Vignali. Estimate: £150,000-200,000. Photo: Bonhams. LONDON.- The Biblical story of how the shepherd boy David slew the mighty giant Goliath with a well-aimed shot from his sling has long appealed to religious and secular audiences alike as an example of the little man…

    Giant killer Florentine masterpiece at Bonhams Old Master Paintings Sale