Focus on this artwork and analyze the abstract.
The Laundress (French: La Blanchisseuse) is a 1761 genre painting by French artist Jean-Baptiste Greuze (1725–1805), existing in two versions.  The subject of laundresses, also known as washerwomen, was a popular one in art, especially in France.The prime version of  The Laundress was one of fourteen works exhibited by Greuze at the Salon of 1761 and was part of the collection of Greuze's patron, Ange Laurent Lalive de Jully. The painting was mostly unknown for more than two centuries as it was purchased in 1770 by Gustaf Adolf Sparre and privately held in that Swedish art collection and rarely seen until it was acquired by the Getty Museum in 1983.The second version is now in the Fogg Museum, Harvard.  At 39 x 31 cm, it is just slightly smaller than the Getty's, and also dated c. 1761.  It was possibly created to allow a print to be made of the subject.
Fogg Museum genre painting Ange Laurent Lalive de Jully washerwomen Salon Jean-Baptiste Greuze Gustaf Adolf Sparre prime version Getty Museum