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In these words Diderot formulated his programme. It was his wish that the corrupt man, when he went to an exhibition, should feel pricks of conscience at the pictures and read in them his own condemnation.
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Educational effects,
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that is the keynote of Diderot's demands upon the painter, and of the accomplishment of Greuze in answer to this claim. He is the French Hogarth, whether he paints in sombre colours the misery that the drunkard brings upon his family, and the horrors of poverty, or depicts in brighter tones the love of children for their parents and the works of charity; and with him too, as with the Englishman, his title was chosen with a didactic after-thought to heighten the effect of his picture. Thus such scenes as these occurred:
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The Father's Curse,
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The Consolation of Age,
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The Son's Correction,
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The Ungrateful Son,
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The Beloved Mother,
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The Spoilt Child,
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The Lame Man tended by his Relations, and
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The Results of Good Education.