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Early Life and Training

Born in Tournus, Burgundy, he learned drawing from a Lyonnais painter Charles Grandon () whom he later accompanied to Paris, where he studied figure drawing at the school of the Royal Academy, under the Rococo artist Charles-Joseph Natoire ().

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Due to a combination of skill and good fortune, Greuze quickly drew attention to himself with his first important genre painting "A Father explaining the Bible to his Children" () (Pere de famille expliquant la Bible a ses enfants).

This work was immediately recommended to the French Academy by the eminent portrait and history painter Louis de Silvestre () - whose acclaimed portrait was painted by Greuze at about the same time - resulting in Greuze's election as an associate member of the academy.

Another of his genre paintings, "The Blind Man Cheated" (), was also shown at the Paris Salon in At the age of 30, Greuze was now a made man, and his art was haile