The Notary: A Study for "The Marriage Contract"
Medium
Black chalk with stumping, with red chalk, heightened with white chalk, on tan laid paper, laid down on card
Dimensions
52.6 × 43.5 cm (20 3/4 × 17 3/16 in.)
Classification
chalk
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
150769
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 ...