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Study of a Groom
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
More by Jean-Baptiste Greuze in museum collections
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