Greuze passed his last years in misery and regret. His wife, Mlle. Babuty, whose charming face appears in so many of his pictures, was an extravagant and worthless woman, from whom he was separated long before his death. Works: Septimius Severus reproaching Caracalla (1769), Village Bride (1761), Broken Pitcher, Father's Curse, Punished Son, Portrait of Greuze (1761), Portrait of the Painter Jeaurat (1769), two studies of Young Girls, Head of Young Girl, do. of Young Man, Danaë, Artist's and two other portraits, Louvre, Paris; Pelotonneuse, Inconsolable Widow, Female Portrait, two Children's Heads, Duc de Morny, ib.; Return from Tavern, Little Lazy One, Madeleine, and others, Baron Rothschild, ib.; Triumph of Galatea, Study of a Child, Aix Museum; Lady with Spaniel, Angers Museum; Boy's Portrait, Girl's Head, Besançon Museum; Male Portrait, Cherbourg Museum; Psyche crowning Love, Lille Museum; Artist's Portrait, Lyons Museum; Male Portrait, Marseilles Museum; Danaë, Bacchante, Boy's Bust, Male Portrait, Metz Museum; Morning Prayer, Twelfth Cake (1774), Little Mathematician, The Paralytic, Idle Child (1755), six studies of Girls, Montpellier Museum; Portraits of M. de St. Maurice and Son, Nantes Museum; Girl's Head, Narbonne Museum; Old Woman's Head, Nîmes Museum; Male Portrait (1776), Troyes Museum; Napoleon as Consul, Portrait of Fontenelle (1793), Versailles Museum; Old Woman with Crutch, Madrid Museum; Girl with Apple, two studies of Girls, National Gallery, London; La Trompette, two studies of Girls, Buckingham Palace, ib.; Innocence, Portrait of Artist's Mother, South Kensington Museum, ib.; Innocence, Girl with Doves, Reflections, Sir R. Wallace, ib.; Throwing a Kiss, Young Girl with Watch, The Letter, Baron Alfred de Rothschild, ib.; Portraits of Madame de Pompadour and of Louis XVI., Hampton Court Palace; Beggar Boy, Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge; Interior of Peasant Cottage, Girl with Dead Canary, Boy with Lesson Book, two studies of Girls, National Gallery, Edinburgh; Child's Head, Sulky Boy, Glasgow Gallery; Young Woman and Child, Rotterdam Museum; Portrait of Louis XVI., Carlsruhe Gallery; Emperor Caracalla, Gotha Museum; Young Girl, Old Pinakothek, Munich; do. (1787), Berlin Museum; do., Leipsic Museum; Father reading the Bible to his Children (1755), Dresden Museum; Paralytic with his Children, Young Girl, Boy with School-book, Male Portrait, Hermitage, St. Petersburg; Girl with Doll, Academy, ib.; nine pictures in Leuchtenberg Gallery, ib.; Five Studies of Heads, Academy, Vienna; Others in Liechtenstein Gallery, ib.; Contemplation, Accademia San Luca, Rome; Study for Head in Father's Curse, Museum, New York; Nymph of Diana, Portrait of Louis XVII., do. of Duc de Choiseul, Replica of L'Aveugle trompé, Virginie, two Female Heads, Historical Society, ib. Nearly all of his works have been engraved.—Bellier de la Chavignerie, i. 695; Ch. Blanc, École française; Dohme; Gautier, Guide au Louvre, 184; Gaz. des B. Arts (1860), vii. 349; viii. 195, 236; (1862), xiii. 401, 512; (1870), iv. 277; (1874), x. 193; (1877), xvi. 201; Goncourt, L'art du XVIII. Siècle, i. 291; Houssaye, Gal. du XVIII. Siècle, iv. 161; Jal, 658; Meyer, Gesch., 7; Renouvier, Hist. de l'art pendant la Revol., etc. (Paris, 1863); Wurzbach, Fr. Maler des XVIII. Jahrh., 35; Zeitschr. f. b. K., xx. 251.
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GRÉVEDON, (PIERRE LOUIS) called HENRI, born in Paris, Oct. 17, 1776, died there, June 1, 1860. Portrait painter and lithographer, pupil of Regnault. After exhibiting (1804) a picture of Achilles landing
