The Father's Curse

The Father's Curse - The Ungrateful Son is an oil on canvas painting by Jean-Baptiste Greuze, first exhibited at the Paris Salon of 1777, where it was unanimously praised by art critics such as Denis Diderot. It is now in the Louvre in Paris.[1]

The Father's Curse (1777) by Jean-Baptiste Greuze

Based on Diderot's account of the 1761 Salon,[2] the work shows a son announcing to his family that he is leaving to join the army, with his father forbidding it. The work forms a pair with Greuze's The Son Punished.[3]

References
  1. "Catalogue entry" (in French).
  2. Essais sur la peinture, Salons de 1759, 1761, 1763, Hermann, Paris, 2007, pp.165-168.
  3. "Catalogue entry (The Son Punished)" (in French).


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