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    Museum collections / Art Institute of Chicago
    Study of a Groom
    Jean-Baptiste Greuze. Study of a Groom, c. 1760. The Art Institute of Chicago. Public domain (CC0).
    AT-00002474

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    Study of a Groom

    by Jean-Baptiste Greuze

    Provenance

    St. Petersburg Academy of Fine Arts, to at least 1922 [Lugt Supp. 2699a; Monod and Hautecoeur 1922]. Hermitage, Leningrad, by May 1932 [the drawing was included in the May 26, 1932, Hermitage sale, at C. G. Boerner, Leipzig, as lot 48, but was not sold according to F. Carlo Schmid of Boerner]. Private collection; sold, Christie's, London, March 26, 1968, anonymous sale, lot 77, to John P. Hardy [according to Hartford 1976]. Sold by Paul Drey Gallery, New York, to the Art Institute, 1968.

    Exhibition history

    St. Petersburg, Academy of Fine Arts, "Exhibition Black and White," 1903. Leningrad, Hermitage, "Master Drawings," 1926, cat. 209. The Art Institute of Chicago, "The Helen Regenstein Collection of European Drawings," 1974, pp. 96-97, cat. 48 (ill.), cat. by Harold Joachim. The Art Institute of Chicago, "Selected Works of 18th Century French Art in the Collections of The Art Institute of Chicago," January 24-March 28, 1976, p. 62, cat. 53 (ill.). Hartford, Conn., Wadsworth Atheneum, "Greuze," December 1, 1976-January 23, 1977, cat. 33; also traveled to San Francisco, The California Palace of the Legion of Honor, March 5-May 1, 1977; and Dijon, the Musée des Beaux-Art, June 4-July 31, 1977. The Art Institute of Chicago, "The Regenstein Collection of European Drawings," 1985-1986. The Art Institute of Chicago, "The Broad Spectrum: Color on Paper, Past and Present," September 12–October 31, 1999, hors. cat.

    Publications

    Mir Iskousstwa (1903), no. 12 (ill.). François Monod and Louis Hautecoeur, Les Dessins de Greuze conservés à l'Académie des Beaux-Arts de Saint-Pétersbourg (Paris, 1922), no. 48. Harold Joachim, French Drawing and Sketchbooks of the Eighteenth Century in The Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago, 1977), no. 1E12.

    Quick Overview

    Artist
    Jean-Baptiste Greuze / French, 1725-1805
    Date
    c. 1760
    Medium
    Black chalk, with stumping and black crayon, red and brown chalk, heightened with white chalk, on buff laid paper, laid down on cream laid paper
    Dimensions
    50.7 × 29.4 cm (20 × 11 5/8 in.)
    Type
    Drawing
    Classification
    chalk
    Place
    France
    Department
    Prints and Drawings
    Credit line
    Helen Regenstein Collection
    Accession no.
    1968.461

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