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Jean-Baptiste Greuze

1725 - 1805

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Jean-Baptiste Greuze (French pronunciation: [ʒɑ̃ batist ɡʁøz], 21 August 1725 – 4 March 1805) was a French painter of portraits, genre scenes, and history painting. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Jean-Baptiste Greuze has received more than 282,657 page views. His biography is available in 34 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 31 in 2019). Jean-Baptiste Greuze is the 250th most popular painter (down from 246th in 2019), the 813th most popular biography from France (down from 797th in 2019) and the 63rd most popular French Painter.

Jean-Baptiste Greuze is most famous for his portraits of children.

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  • 64.48

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 34

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 8.48

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.29

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among PAINTERS

Among painters, Jean-Baptiste Greuze ranks 250 out of 2,023. Before him are Gabriël Metsu, Georges Rouault, Piero di Cosimo, František Kupka, Andrea del Castagno, and Carel Fabritius. After him are Giacomo Balla, Hubert van Eyck, Federico Barocci, Ivan Kramskoi, Kamāl ud-Dīn Behzād, and Salvator Rosa.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1725, Jean-Baptiste Greuze ranks 4. Before him are Giacomo Casanova, Abdul Hamid I, and Nicolas-Joseph Cugnot. After him are Louis Philippe I, Duke of Orléans, Robert Clive, Suzuki Harunobu, Ludovico Manin, Louis Jean Marie de Bourbon, Duke of Penthièvre, Ahilyabai Holkar, Henry Benedict Stuart, and Pyotr Rumyantsev. Among people deceased in 1805, Jean-Baptiste Greuze ranks 5. Before him are Friedrich Schiller, Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson, Luigi Boccherini, and Isabelle de Charrière. After him are Claude Chappe, Maria Theresa of Savoy, Frederick, Hereditary Prince of Denmark, Charles Cornwallis, 1st Marquess Cornwallis, Frederica Louisa of Hesse-Darmstadt, Mihrişah Sultan, and Abraham Hyacinthe Anquetil-Duperron.

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In France

Among people born in France, Jean-Baptiste Greuze ranks 813 out of 6,770. Before him are André Frédéric Cournand (1895), Victor of Aveyron (1793), Geoffrey of Villehardouin (1150), Charles Garnier (1825), Gabrielle d'Estrées (1573), and Antoine Arnauld (1612). After him are Jean-Victor Poncelet (1788), Jean Froissart (1337), Robert Guérin (1876), Armand-Emmanuel de Vignerot du Plessis, Duc de Richelieu (1766), Gnaeus Julius Agricola (40), and Princess Marie Bonaparte (1882).

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Among PAINTERS In France

Among painters born in France, Jean-Baptiste Greuze ranks 63. Before him are Pierre Bonnard (1867), Jeanne Hébuterne (1898), Simon Vouet (1590), Charles-François Daubigny (1817), Jacques Callot (1592), and Georges Rouault (1871). After him are Henri Fantin-Latour (1836), Pierre Puvis de Chavannes (1824), Martin Schongauer (1450), Paul Delaroche (1797), Horace Vernet (1789), and Albert Marquet (1875).

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