Broken Eggs
Jean-Baptiste Greuze
€39,90
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- 380g/m² cotton canvas — certified museum quality
- Solid wood stretcher bar with 0.75” gallery wrap
- HD Giclée print — colour-true to the original
- Ready to hang — hanging hardware included
Broken Eggs, painted by Jean-Baptiste Greuze in 1756, established the young artist's reputation as a master of the moralizing genre scene that would define his career. The composition depicts a mother scolding her daughter over a basket of shattered eggs, an ostensibly domestic incident that eighteenth-century viewers would have immediately recognized as a thinly veiled allegory for lost virginity and its social consequences.
Greuze's genius lay in his ability to imbue everyday genre subjects with dramatic, theatrical intensity and pointed moral messaging, elevating scenes of bourgeois domestic life to the seriousness previously reserved for history painting. The painting's rich, warm palette and carefully staged gestures reflect the Enlightenment era's fascination with sentiment, virtue, and the didactic potential of art to instruct as well as delight.
Held in the collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, this museum-quality stretched canvas reproduction is printed on premium matte canvas and hand-wrapped around a solid 0.75-inch gallery wrap frame — ready to hang and built to last.
| Artist | Jean-Baptiste Greuze |
| Year | 1756 |
| Medium | Oil on canvas |
| Dimensions | 28 3/4 x 37 in. (73 x 94 cm) |
| Collection | The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
| Movement | Rococo |
