Jean-Baptiste Greuze: The laundress:

"Colin B. Bailey draws from the recent renaissance in the study of Ancien Regime art and society not only to situate this work in the context of Greuze's early career and to consider it against what is known of the realities of washing linen in eighteenth-century Paris, but also to suggest...

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Main Author: Bailey, Colin B. 1955- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Los Angeles Getty Museum 2000
Series:Getty Museum studies on art
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Online Access:Volltext
Summary:"Colin B. Bailey draws from the recent renaissance in the study of Ancien Regime art and society not only to situate this work in the context of Greuze's early career and to consider it against what is known of the realities of washing linen in eighteenth-century Paris, but also to suggest how patronage, exhibiting, and marketing each played a significant role in The Laundress's early history."--BOOK JACKET.
Physical Description:92 S.: zahlr. Ill.
ISBN:0892365641

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