Jean-Baptiste Greuze
French, 1725-1805
Women and Children Mourning a Dead Man
INV-6582
Jean-Baptiste Greuze
French, 1725-18051778
Women and Children Mourning a Dead Man
Jean-Baptiste Greuze French, 1725-1805 →ink or chalk washdrawings (visual works)
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.)
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Location
Chicago, IL
Credit
Margaret Day Blake Fund
In the third quarter of the 18th century, a young generation of artists developed a sober, almost classicizing reaction to the artificial frivolities of artists like François Boucher. Greuze depicted scenes from daily life that were intended to be inspirational or morally uplifting. This drawing is a study for his painting of 1778 (now in the Musée du Louvre, Paris) showing the errant son who has returned home just as his father has died.
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