Published for the exhibition Greuze: Childhood Illuminated at the Petit Palais in Paris, this volume celebrates Jean-Baptiste Greuze (1725–1805), a painter admired in his time for portraits and genre scenes and remembered above all for his striking depictions of childhood.
Bringing together around one hundred works from major French and international collections, the exhibition explores childhood as experience and idea. The catalog follows the thematic sections of the show, tracing stages of growth from innocence to early adulthood, and examining contrasts between joy and anxiety, beauty and suffering, playfulness and family tension.
With 392 pages and 250 illustrations, the publication offers an overview of Greuze’s art and situates his child portraits within the broader debates of eighteenth-century society, from education and family roles to the shaping of moral character.
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