Download or read book Greuze and the Painting of Sentiment written by Emma Barker and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2005-03-21 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This reassessment of the work of Jean-Baptiste Greuze, the eighteenth-century painter, reconstructs the broader movement in French painting of which he was the leading figure. Drawing on a wide range of contemporary sources, it notes the extraordinary popularity that Greuze enjoyed in his lifetime. The volume reveals that the family life scenes he produced in the 1760s promoted an enlightened social vision and argues that the painting of sentiment was subsequently appropriated to serve a more conservative agenda.