Anna-Geneviève Greuze (sometimes Anne-Geneviève) (1762–1842) was a French painter. Born in Paris, Greuze was the daughter and pupil of

Jean-Baptiste Greuze Jean-Baptiste Greuze (, 21 August 1725 – 4 March 1805) was a French painter of portraits, genre scenes, and history painting. Early life Greuze was born at Tournus, a market town in Burgundy. He is generally said to have formed his own ...

, and lived with him until his death. She was known as a

genre Genre () is any style or form of communication in any mode (written, spoken, digital, artistic, etc.) with socially agreed-upon conventions developed over time. In popular usage, it normally describes a category of literature, music, or other fo ...

and

portrait A portrait is a painting, photograph, sculpture, or other artistic representation of a person, in which the face is always predominant. In arts, a portrait may be represented as half body and even full body. If the subject in full body better r ...

painter, but it is highly likely that much of her surviving work has been confused with that of her father. A handful of

pastel A pastel () is an art medium that consists of powdered pigment and a binder (material), binder. It can exist in a variety of forms, including a stick, a square, a pebble, and a pan of color, among other forms. The pigments used in pastels are ...

s attributed to her by family tradition survived in the collection of the descendants of sculptor Henri-Zozime de Valori until 2009.Profile
in the ''Dictionary of Pastellists Before 1800''. File:Anne-Geneviève Greuze - Child with a Doll.jpg, up''Child With a Doll'', Anna-Geneviève Greuze File:Portrait of Jean-Baptiste Greuze by his daughter Anna Greuze.jpg, Portrait of Jean-Baptiste Greuze by his daughter Anna-Geneviève Greuze, 1804–5

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