3780 x 4764 px | 32 x 40,3 cm | 12,6 x 15,9 inches | 300dpi
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Jean Baptiste Greuze (1725–1805) was a French genre and portrait painter. His works are characterized as sentimental and moralistic. He was praised by Diderot. Among his best known works are Les Deux Soeurs, La Malediction paternelle, La Cruche Cassee, and L’Innocence tenant deux Pigeons. This painting, titled L'Oiseau Mort or The Dead Bird, was bequeathed by Baron Arthur de Rothschild to the Louvre. It shows one of Greuze's most beautiful child figures, a little girl who has just found her bird dead. You forget the mannered pose of the hands and arms, to admire their curves and dimples. The delicacy of the little grieving face is beyond praise, with the tears starting beneath the downcast lashes, and a mouth that seems to quiver under the stir of shadow that plays with it.
