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Study of a Hand

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Study of a Hand

Jean-Baptiste Greuze

ca. 1760–80

Medium

Red and black chalk

Tags

Dimensions

Sheet: 6 9/16 × 8 7/16 in. (16.6 × 21.5 cm)

Collection

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

Credit

Gift of Richard Barsam, in memory of Edgar Munhall, 2018

Classification

Drawings

Department

Drawings and Prints

Rights

Public Domain

About Jean-Baptiste Greuze

1725–1805 • France

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 painting should relate to life.

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