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Excerpt from J. B. Greuze
Origine et naissance de Greuze. Pourquoi il a ete le peintre dela petite bourgeoisie. Vocation contrarie'e. - Greuze a Lyon, chez le peintre Grandon. Il part pour Paris. Son portrait. Les difficultes du debut. - Encouragements donnes par Pigalle et Silvestre. Le Tableau du Pere de famille au Salon de 1755. Succes eclatant. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
