Portrait of a Man
Medium
Red chalk
Dimensions
10 1/16 x 7 11/16 in. (25.6 x 19.5 cm)
Classification
Drawings
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gift of William Rieder, 2009
Accession Number
2009.465.10
Tags
MenPortraits
About the Artist
Jean-Baptiste Greuze|Pierre Alexandre Wille|Anonymous, French, 18th century · 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...