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The Village Bride

Jean-Baptiste Greuze

Jean-Baptiste Greuze was a Frenchpainterof portraits,genre scenes, andhistory painting.

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Title:The Village Bride

Artists:Jean-Baptiste Greuze

Date:1761

Style:Rococo

Genre:genre painting

Medium:oil

Location:Louvre, Paris, France

Dimensions:36×46.5 cm

Copyright:Public domain

L'Accordée de Village is a painting by the French artist Jean-Baptiste Greuze, first exhibited at the 1761 Salon, where it was unanimously praised by the critics, notably by Diderot. It was the first example of the 'moral painting' genre, to which Greuze often returned. It is now in the Louvre Museum in Paris.

It was part of a series of 6 paintings. Caroline de Valory, a former pupil of Greuze, collaborated with the writer Alexandre Louis Bertrand Robineau to produce L'Accordée de Village, a one-act comedy based on the paintings.