Question

What was the importance of "The Laundress" artwork and why was it put in museum?​

Answer 1

Jean-Baptiste Greuze stripped the traditional theme of the washerwoman

of its association with the virtue of hard work and instead overlaid it with a

titillating sensuality typical of Rococo art. In a room scattered with wet and

drying laundry, a disheveled maidservant with an exposed stocking and

slipper fixes the viewer with a provocative gaze.

It was most likely put in the museum for the image behind the image..you know? Like she looks like a laundress but the way the painting was portrayed she looks more like a scandoulous teaser.

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