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Jean-Baptiste Greuze was a famous French painter of the later 18th century. A very well-received genre and portrait painter, he was less successful at the more prestigious field of history painting, which he desperately wanted to be remembered for. Although he died penniless due to profligacy and his wife's embezzlement of his money, his work as an artist was popular both during his lifetime and after his death.

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  • Jean-Baptiste Greuze
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  • Jean-Baptiste Greuze was a famous French painter of the later 18th century. A very well-received genre and portrait painter, he was less successful at the more prestigious field of history painting, which he desperately wanted to be remembered for. Although he died penniless due to profligacy and his wife's embezzlement of his money, his work as an artist was popular both during his lifetime and after his death.
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  • Painter
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  • Jean-Baptiste Greuze
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  • Male
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  • 1805-03-04(xsd:date)
  • Paris, France
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  • 1725-08-21(xsd:date)
  • Tournus, France
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  • Jean-Baptiste Greuze was a famous French painter of the later 18th century. A very well-received genre and portrait painter, he was less successful at the more prestigious field of history painting, which he desperately wanted to be remembered for. Although he died penniless due to profligacy and his wife's embezzlement of his money, his work as an artist was popular both during his lifetime and after his death. Because of his popularity his paintings were highly valued: in 1865 his painting La Jeune Fille à l'agneau ("Young Girl with a Lamb") sold for one million two hundred thousand francs. His work was apparently liked by Professor James Moriarty, who kept a painting of a girl by Greuze above the desk in his office. Sherlock Holmes was able to use this fact, and the auction price of his Girl with a Lamb, to convince Inspector Alec MacDonald of Moriarty's criminal nature: on a professor's salary, Moriarty would never be able to afford such an exorbitantly-priced work, and must therefore have another, hidden source for his immense wealth.
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