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
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and
portrait
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painter, but it is highly likely that much of her surviving work has been confused with that of her father. A handful of
pastel
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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
References
1762 births
1842 deaths
18th-century French painters
19th-century French painters
French pastel artists
Painters from Paris
French women pastel artists
18th-century French women painters
19th-century French women painters
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