Art Institute of Chicago
Women and Children Mourning a Dead Man
Jean-Baptiste GreuzeLinkedCulture matchlcp-d793c8295d26
- Date
- 1778
- Medium
- Pen and brown ink, and brush and gray and brown wash, with graphite, on cream laid paper, laid down on ivory laid paper, laid down on ivory laid paper
- Culture
- France
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Institution
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Object ID
- 65825
From the Art Institute of Chicago record
In the third quarter of the 18th century, a young generation of artists developed a sober, almost classicizing reaction to the artificial frivolities of artists like François Boucher. Greuze depicted scenes from daily life that were intended to be inspirational or morally uplifting. This drawing is a study for his painting of 1778 (now in the Musée du Louvre, Paris) showing the errant son who has returned home just as his father has died.
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- Credit line
- Margaret Day Blake Fund
- Provenance
- Given by the artist to (possibly Jean-Baptiste-Pierre) Le Brun, 1799 [inscription]. Sold by Gilhofe and Ranschburg, Lucerne, to the Art Institute, 1986.
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- Object type
- AAT300033973
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