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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Author / Contributor: Bailey, Colin B.
Other authors / contributors: Greuze, Jean-Baptiste, 1725-1805
Imprint: Los Angeles : J. Paul Getty Museum, ©2000.
Format: Electronic
Language:English
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Series:Getty Museum studies on art.
Getty Publications virtual library.
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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."--Jacket.
Physical Description:1 online resource (92 pages) : color illustrations.
Format:Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002.
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002.
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references (pages 76-88).
ISBN:0892365641 (paper)
9780892365647 (paper)
Reproduction Note:Electronic reproduction.
Electronic reproduction.
Source of Description, Etc. Note:Description based on print version record.
Action Note:digitized
digitized