Study of a Hand
Jean-Baptiste Greuze
ca. 1760–80
Medium
Red and black chalk
Dimensions
Sheet: 6 9/16 × 8 7/16 in. (16.6 × 21.5 cm)
Classification
Drawings
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gift of Richard Barsam, in memory of Edgar Munhall, 2018
Accession Number
2018.590.5
Tags
Hands
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...