# The Broken Pitcher [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [GREUZE, Jean-Baptiste]() - Date: 1751-1800 - Technique: Oil on canvas, 109 x 87 cm ## Commentary The painting shows a young girl at a well. One sees immediately that Greuze was concerned to convey eroticism in the Rococo manner, the badly proportioned lion of the well in the antique style being only a fashionable attribute. <P> <TABLE ALIGN=LEFT CELLPADDING=5 BORDER=1 WIDTH=320 BGCOLOR="\#99CCCC"> <TR VALIGN=MIDDLE><TD><IMG SRC="/support/gif/listen.gif" BORDER=0 VALIGN=MIDDLE> Suggested listening \(streaming mp3, 19 minutes\):<BR><A HREF="\#" onClick="w=window.open \('/music1/19\_cent/tchaikovsky\_rococo.html', 'newWin', 'scrollbars=yes,status=no,dependent=yes,screenX=0,screenY=0,width=350,height=350'\);w.opener=this;w.focus\(\);return true"><B>Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky: Variations on a Rococo Theme</B></A> </TD></TR></TABLE> <BR CLEAR=LEFT><BR> ## 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]()