# Indolence \(La Paresseuse Italienne\) [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [GREUZE, Jean-Baptiste]() - Date: 1751-1800 - Technique: Oil on canvas, 70 x 49 cm ## Commentary Greuze exhibited at the Salon of 1757 four pictures 'dans le costume italien', including Indolence or La Paresseuse Italienne. Here one might see the <A onclick="return OpenOther\('/html/c/caravagg/02/12magda.html'\)" href="/html/c/caravagg/02/12magda.html">influence not only of Caravaggio</A> but of Subleyras, notably in the beautiful response to tones of cream and white, set off by passages of warm colour, like the girl's scarlet shoes. Greuze's feel for textures is demonstrated in the range of material suggested: from the delicacy of glass to the coarse fabric of the skirt, not overlooking the pale yet sensuously heavy tones of flesh. A typically Greuzian fondness for the pleasures of disorder characterizes the whole composition. Not Italy but his own temperament seems the inspiration behind it. ## 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]() - [Innocence]() - [La Polonaise \(A Polish Beauty\)]() - [L'Accordée de Village \(detail\)]() - [L'Accordée de Village]() - [Madame Greuze]() - [Portrait of a Boy]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()