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The Notary: A Study for "The Marriage Contract"
Inscriptions
Signed lower right, in graphite: "J.B. Greuze"
Provenance
Baron Domitille de Lagny, France, from the mid-nineteenth century and by descent to 1986 [London 1998]; Thomas Agnew and Son, London, 1986 [London 1986]; Jaime Ortiz-Patino, from 1986 [London 1998]. Private collector, United States, to 1997 [London 1998]. Sold by Spink-Leger Pictures, London, to the Art Institute, 1999.
Exhibition history
London, Thomas Agnew and Sons, "From Claude to Gericault: The Arts in France," June-July 1986, cat. 28. London, Spink-Leger Gallery, "Master Drawings: 17th to 20th Century," 1998, cat. 6. New York, The Frick Collection, "Greuze: Master Draughtsman," November 5, 2001-January 27, 2002, cat. 19; also traveled to the J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, Calif., September 10-December 1, 2002.
Publications
Edgar Munhall, Jean-Baptiste Greuze (Hartford, Conn., 1976), p. 86. Marie-Catherine Sahut and Natalie Volle, Diderot et l'Art de Boucher à David (Paris, 1984), p. 227. Richard Rand, "Civil and Natural Contract in Greuze's L'Accordée de Village," Gazette des Beaux-Arts 1528 (May-June 1996), p. 223 (ill.). Suzanne Folds McCullagh, "Never Dormant: Drawings in Chicago," Master Drawings (2000). Treasures from The Art Institute of Chicago, selected by James N. Wood, with commentaries by Debra N. Mancoff (Chicago, 2000), p. 140 (ill.).
Quick Overview
- Artist
- Jean-Baptiste Greuze / French, 1725-1805
- Date
- 1761
- Medium
- Black chalk with stumping, with red chalk, heightened with white chalk, on tan laid paper, laid down on card
- Dimensions
- 52.6 × 43.5 cm (20 3/4 × 17 3/16 in.)
- Type
- Drawing
- Classification
- chalk
- Place
- France
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Credit line
- Wirt D. Walker Endowment
- Accession no.
- 1999.2
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