Study of a Groom

CC0 Public Domain Designation

Prints and Drawings

c. 1760

Jean-Baptiste Greuze
French, 1725-1805

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Prints and Drawings

Artist: Jean Baptiste Greuze
Title: Study of a Groom
Place: France (Artist's nationality:)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: 1755–1765
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.)
Credit Line: Helen Regenstein Collection
Reference Number: 1968.461
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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.

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.

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.

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