# The Dead Bird [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [GREUZE, Jean-Baptiste]() - Date: 1751-1800 - Technique: Oil on canvas, 68 x 55 cm ## Commentary In the last years of Greuze's career, his moralising, dramatic genre scenes and severe manner had become unfashionable. With The Dead Bird he returned to a lighter, pleasing vein like that of The Broken Pitcher - a type that was more prized by his contemporaries. ## Related artworks - [Ange Laurent de La Live de Jully]() - [Bust of Young Woman \(La Reveuse\)]() - [Epiphany \(Le gâteau des rois\)]() - [Fear, Expression Head]() - [Girl with Birds]() - [Head of a Boy]() - [Indolence \(La Paresseuse Italienne\)]() - [Innocence]() - [La Polonaise \(A Polish Beauty\)]() - [L'Accordée de Village \(detail\)]() - [L'Accordée de Village]() - [Madame Greuze]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()