Lot 640
  • 640

Jean-Baptiste Greuze

Estimate
8,000 - 12,000 USD
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Description

  • Jean-Baptiste Greuze
  • Two frightened children comforting each other
  • Pen and brown ink, point of the brush and gray ink and brown and gray wash over black chalk

Provenance

Sale, London, Sotheby's, 3 July 1995, lot 154;
sale, London, Sotheby's, 2 July 1997, lot 227

Catalogue Note

Edgar Munhall dates the present drawing circa 1785, and notes that its subject is reminiscent of other works such as The Angry Wife, a scene of domestic violence which includes similarly frightened children.

1. See E. Munhall, Greuze the Draftsman, exhib. cat., New York, Frick Collection, 2002, pp. 247-9,  no. 89