Art Institute of Chicago
Portrait of the Artist's Mother
Jean-Baptiste Greuze
- Date
- 1775
- Medium
- Black, red, and white chalk with stumping on brownish-gray laid paper, laid down on a ivory laid card
- Culture
- France
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Institution
- Art Institute of Chicago
This remarkable study of dignified old age is a poignant, rare portrait of Jean-Baptiste Greuze’s mother, Claudine, made when she was approximately 75 years old. Recently discovered, it documents a tender reunion of mother and son. Greuze visited his family in Tournus in 1755 on his way to Italy with Abbot Gougenot. A related drawing in a private Parisian collection has been identified as Madame Greuze Embracing Her Son after 20 Years Absence ; the date of that work suggests that the present sheet was also made in 1775.
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- Object type
- AAT300033973
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