GREUZE, Jean-Baptiste
(b. 1725, Tournus, d. 1805, Paris)

Votive Offering to Cupid

1767
Oil on canvas, 146 x 113 cm
Wallace Collection, London

The girl's costume, her act of sacrifice, and the architectural details evoke antiquity, though such academism is not easisly accomodated by Greuze's easy sentimentality.