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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1931.244
People
Jean-Baptiste Greuze, French (Tournus 1725 - 1805 Paris)
Title
Head of a Man
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
c. 1775
Culture
French
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/297910

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Red chalk on cream antique laid paper, partial framing lines in brown ink
Dimensions
33.1 × 46.3 cm (13 1/16 × 18 1/4 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • inscription: none
  • watermark: D&C BLAUW IV (or VI) [fragmentary]

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Richard Owen, Paris, gift; to Fogg Art Museum, 1931

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Richard Owen
Accession Year
1931
Object Number
1931.244
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Descriptions

Description
His head, which is covered by a mantle, is turned three-quarters left.

Publication History

  • Agnes Mongan and Paul J. Sachs, Drawings in the Fogg Museum of Art, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, 1940), vol. 1, cat. no. 625, p. 332
  • John Montgomery Wilson, "The Painting of the Passions in Theory, Practice and Criticism in Later Eighteenth Century France" (1975), University of Iowa, pp. ix, 175, 341 (as "Head of a Woman")
  • Edgar Munhall, Greuze the Draftsman, exh. cat., Merrell Publishers Ltd. / The Frick Collection (New York, 2002), p. 218 (as "Head of a Man")
  • Hilliard T. Goldfarb, From the Hands of the Masters: A Private Collection, exh. cat., The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts (Montreal, 2013), p. 14
  • Alvin L. Clark, Jr. and Edouard Kopp, French Drawings from the Age of Claude, Poussin, Watteau, and Fragonard: Highlights from the Collection of the Harvard Art Museums, Harvard Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, 2022), cat. no. 82, repr.

Exhibition History

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