Jean-Baptiste Greuze
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| '''Jean-Baptiste Greuze''' ([[21 August]] [[1725]] – [[4 March]] [[1805]]) was a [[France|French]] [[painter]]. | '''Jean-Baptiste Greuze''' ([[21 August]] [[1725]] – [[4 March]] [[1805]]) was a [[France|French]] [[painter]]. | ||
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| + | In the second chapter of [[Arthur Conan Doyle]]'s [[Sherlock Holmes]] story ''[[The Valley of Fear]]'', Holmes' discussion of his enemy [[Professor Moriarty]] involves a Greuze painting, intended to illustrate Moriarty's wealth despite his small income. | ||
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| + | In the sixth part of The Leopard, a novel by the Italian writer Tomasi di Lampedusa, the Prince of Salina watches a Greuze painting, La Mort du Juste, and he starts thinking about death when his nephew Tancredi comes and asks "Are you courting death ?" | ||
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| + | In Agatha Christie's "The Murder at the Vicarage," Miss Marple mentions her nephew considers another character "the perfect Greuze." | ||
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Jean-Baptiste Greuze (21 August 1725 – 4 March 1805) was a French painter.
References in literature
In the second chapter of Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes story The Valley of Fear, Holmes' discussion of his enemy Professor Moriarty involves a Greuze painting, intended to illustrate Moriarty's wealth despite his small income.
In the sixth part of The Leopard, a novel by the Italian writer Tomasi di Lampedusa, the Prince of Salina watches a Greuze painting, La Mort du Juste, and he starts thinking about death when his nephew Tancredi comes and asks "Are you courting death ?"
In Agatha Christie's "The Murder at the Vicarage," Miss Marple mentions her nephew considers another character "the perfect Greuze."
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