Jean-Baptiste Greuze
From The Arthur Conan Doyle Encyclopedia
Historical figure.
Jean-Baptiste Greuze (21 august 1725 - 4 march 1805) was a French painter of portraits, genre scenes, and history painting.
In the Sherlock Holmes stories
- Inspector Alec MacDonald noticed a painting in the Professor Moriarty's office that Sherlock Holmes identified as "La Jeune fille à l'agneau" ("The young girl with a lamb") by famous painter Jean-Baptiste Greuze (VALL 308).
- Sherlock Holmes told Inspector Alec MacDonald that in 1865 the painting "La Jeune fille à l'agneau" fetched not less than forty thousand pounds [1] at the Portalis sale (VALL 323), meaning that Professor Moriarty's fortune was considerable.
- Paintings by Jean-Baptiste Greuze of girls with lamb
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"La Jeune fille à l'agneau". -
"Innocence".
- ↑ £40,000 in the first publication (The Strand Magazine), but the amount was changed to £4,000 in the next publications in book form because the editor of The World of Art wrote to Arthur Conan Doyle that no work of art had fetched such a price (The Valley of Fear, Oxford University Press, note 17).
