The Marriage Contract
ca. 1761
Medium
Red and black chalk over traces of graphite, watercolor and gouache
Dimensions
sheet: 12 1/8 x 17 7/16 in. (30.8 x 44.3 cm)
Classification
Drawings
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Purchase, Lila Acheson Wallace and Mrs. Howard J. Barnet Gifts, 2012
Accession Number
2012.16
Tags
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...