- Title
- Greuze girls and the painterly embodiment of sexual pleasure
- Creator
- Milam, Jennifer
- Relation
- Making Waves: Crosscurrents in the Study of Nineteenth-century Art: Essays in honour of Petra ten-Doesschate Chu p. 95-100
- Relation
- Studies in Nineteenth-Century Art and Visual Culture 19
- Relation
- http://www.brepols.net/Pages/ShowProduct.aspx?prod_id=IS-9782503584409-1
- Publisher
- Brepols
- Resource Type
- book chapter
- Date
- 2019
- Description
- Jean-Baptiste Greuze’s (1725–1805) Young Girl Mourning Her Dead Bird (Scottish National Gallery, Edinburgh) caused a sensation at the Salon of 1765. As the straightforward title declares, the artist depicted an adolescent female, head in hand, with a dead bird prostrate over an open birdcage. Following conventional emblematics, this scene of daily life was actually a thinly veiled representation of lost virginity.
- Subject
- Jean-Baptiste Greuze; female figure; painting; Young Girl Mourning Her Dead Bird; sexual pleasure; modern art
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1462872
- Identifier
- uon:46582
- Identifier
- ISBN:9782503584409
- Language
- eng
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