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Women and Children Mourning a Dead Man
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.
Exhibition history
New York, The Frick Collection, "From Pontormo to Seurat: Drawings Recently Acquired by The Art Institute of Chicago," April 23-July 7, 1991, n.p., cat. 29 (ill.); traveled to The Art Institute of Chicago, September 10, 1991-January 5, 1992.
Publications
Edgar Munhall, Jean-Baptiste Greuze (Hartford, Conn., 1976), pp. 179-80. Anne Leonard, The Tragic Muse: Art and Emotion, 1700-1900 (Chicago, Smart Museum of Art, 2011), fig. 12, pp. 23-24, 56
Quick Overview
- Artist
- Jean-Baptiste Greuze / French, 1725-1805
- 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
- Dimensions
- 24.9 × 32.4 cm (9 13/16 × 12 13/16 in.)
- Type
- Drawing
- Classification
- ink or chalk wash
- Place
- France
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Credit line
- Margaret Day Blake Fund
- Accession no.
- 1986.1273
More by Jean-Baptiste Greuze in museum collections
Data retrieved from the Art Institute of Chicago on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.
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