The Lazy Boy
Painting by Jean-Baptiste Greuze
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The Lazy Boy (French - Le Petit Paresseux) is a 1755 oil-on-canvas painting by the French artist Jean-Baptiste Greuze, now in the Musée Fabre in Montpellier, to which it was left in 1837 by François-Xavier Fabre. It depicts a child that felt asleep while reading a book.[1]
References
- ^ "Catalogue entry" (in French).
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Jean-Baptiste Greuze
- The Lazy Boy (1755)
- Broken Eggs (1756)
- The Guitar Player (c. 1757)
- The Village Bride (1761)
- The Laundress (1761)
- The Broken Vessel (c. 1771-1772)
- The Lady Giving Charity (1773)
- The Kings' Tart (1774)
- The Father's Curse (1777)
- Cupid Crowned by Psyche (1785–1790)
- Anna-Geneviève Greuze (daughter)
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