Who created "Study of a Groom"?

Study of a Groom was created by Jean Baptiste Greuze in c. 1760.

When was "Study of a Groom" created?

This artwork was created c. 1760.

Study of a Groom

Q: What medium is "Study of a Groom"?

Study of a Groom is 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.

Jean Baptiste Greuze

c. 1760

Medium

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

Dimensions

50.7 × 29.4 cm (20 × 11 5/8 in.)

Classification

chalk

Department

Prints and Drawings

Museum

Art Institute of Chicago

Accession Number

29903

About the Artist

Jean Baptiste Greuze · 1725–1805

Greuze's paintings are typical for his time and place in that he used clear, bright colors, with subjects exhibiting rather light attitude of eighteenth-century painting. However, he was innovative in introducing a Dutch-influenced realism into French genre painting and portraiture. Through vivid facial expressions and dramatic gestures, Greuze's moralizing paintings exemplified the new idea that ...

Study of a Groom

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