. Greuze. ithskill. The pictures of his friends Pigalleand Sylvestre, and an excellent one of theengraver Wille, whose prints, advertisements, |and praises did so much to extend the Greuzecult, are well known; and in the vogue thatfollowed his first success, he received com-missions to paint the Dauphin and otherimportant personages. In spite of its dullcolour, the portrait of the painter Jeaurat,now in the Louvre, is an interesting pieceof work, showing characterisation, the bril-liant eyes giving the impression of a man PLATE v.—LOISEAU MORT LOiseau Mort, or The Dead Bird, bequeathed by Baro
. Greuze. ithskill. The pictures of his friends Pigalleand Sylvestre, and an excellent one of theengraver Wille, whose prints, advertisements, |and praises did so much to extend the Greuzecult, are well known; and in the vogue thatfollowed his first success, he received com-missions to paint the Dauphin and otherimportant personages. In spite of its dullcolour, the portrait of the painter Jeaurat,now in the Louvre, is an interesting pieceof work, showing characterisation, the bril-liant eyes giving the impression of a man PLATE v.—LOISEAU MORT LOiseau Mort, or The Dead Bird, bequeathed by BaronArthur de Rothschild to the Louvre, shows one of Greuzes mostbeautiful child-figures, a little girl who has just found her birddead. You forget the mannered pose of the hands and arms,to admire their curves and dimples. The delicacy of the littlegrieving face is beyond praise, with the tears starting beneaththe downcast lashes, and a mouth that seems to quiver underthe stir of shadow that plays round it. i GREUZE 41 accustomed to observe closely and see most w-viethings. But naturally Greuze was at his bestwhea he painted women. Very beautiful isthe picture of the Marquise de Chauvelin, atpresent in the collection of Baron Alphonsede Rothschild, and some of his portraits ofhis wife justly caused a sensation. To turn for a moment from the artist tothe man, it goes without saying that oneso sensitive to the beauty of woman musthave been susceptible to her influence, andGreuzes numerous heart-histories are all themore interesting in that they are as credit-able to his chivalry as they are first grande passion was his boyish lovefor the wife of his master Grandon at Lyons,a woman with grown-up daughters. Henursed this adoration in silence, and it wasone of the idoFs daughters who afterwardstold how she once surprised the love-sickyouth passionately kissing one of hermothers shoes he had found under a table. 42 GREUZE Later, when he went to Italy with IAbbeGougenot,
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