Artworks · Jean Baptiste Greuze

Women and Children Mourning a Dead Man

1778 · 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

24.9 × 32.4 cm (9 13/16 × 12 13/16 in.)

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Portrait of the Artist's Mother

1775 · Black, red, and white chalk with stumping on brownish-gray laid paper, laid down on a ivory laid card

37.7 × 29.3 cm (14 7/8 × 11 9/16 in.)

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Seated Gentleman

1764 · Red chalk on ivory laid paper

39.2 × 32.5 cm (15 7/16 × 12 13/16 in.)

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The Notary: A Study for "The Marriage Contract"

1761 · Black chalk with stumping, with red chalk, heightened with white chalk, on tan laid paper, laid down on card

52.6 × 43.5 cm (20 3/4 × 17 3/16 in.)

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Ange Laurent de Lalive de Jully

1759 · Oil on canvas

Oval: 64.3 × 53 cm (25 5/16 × 20 7/8 in.)

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The Paternal Blessing, or The Departure of Basile

1759 · Pen and brown ink, brush and black ink, gray wash and graphite, with traces of scraping, on tan laid paper, laid down on tan wove board

37.3 × 50.8 cm (14 11/16 × 20 in.)

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Study of a Groom

1755 · 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

50.7 × 29.4 cm (20 × 11 5/8 in.)

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Distress: Head of a Woman Looking Upwards

1745 · Red chalk on cream laid paper, laid down on ivory laid paper

18.3 × 14.5 cm (7 1/4 × 5 3/4 in.)

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Eulerpe or Clio

1745 · Chalk wash on paper

33.7 × 21.3 cm (13 5/16 × 8 7/16 in.)

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Head of a Girl with Fixed Eyes

1745 · Red chalk on ivory laid paper

26.3 × 24.9 cm (10 3/8 × 9 13/16 in.)

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