L'Accordée de Village [SEP] creator
L'Accordée de Village
L'Accordée de Village is a painting by the French artist Jean-Baptiste Greuze, first exhibited at the 1761 Salon, where it was unanimously praised by the critics, notably by Diderot. It was the first example of the 'moral painting' genre, to which Greuze often returned. It is now in the Louvre Museum in Paris.
It was part of a series of 6 paintings. Caroline de Valory, a former pupil of Greuze, collaborated with the writer Alexandre Louis Bertrand Robineau to produce "
and "Lisady de Rainville" (3 volumes, 1814). She worked with the writer Alexandre Louis Bertrand Robineau, called "Beaunoir", most notably on "L'Accordée de village", a one-act comedy surrounding the 6 moralistic paintings by her former teacher Greuze that he presented at the Paris Salon in 1761, making a sensation with the one called "L'Accordée de Village", that became popular in print and gave its name to the play.
Her painting "The Miniature", in the Glasgow Gallery