A Tired Woman with Two Children
1750/1761
Medium
pen and brown ink with brown wash over black chalk on laid paper; laid down
Dimensions
sheet: 22.3 x 27.9 cm (8 3/4 x 11 in.) support: 24.5 x 29.7 cm (9 5/8 x 11 11/16 in.)
Classification
Drawing
Department
CG-E
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
The Armand Hammer Collection
Accession Number
1991.217.15
About the Artist
Jean-Baptiste Greuze · 1725–1805
Jean-Baptiste Greuze (1725–1805) was a French painter whose moralistic genre scenes and expressive portraits made him one of the most celebrated and controversial artists of the eighteenth century. Born in Tournus, Burgundy, Greuze traveled to Paris in his youth and trained under Charles Grandon before gaining admission to the Académie Royale de Peinture et de Sculpture, where he made a sensationa...