The Notary: A Study for "The Marriage Contract", by Jean Baptiste Greuze, 1761
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The Notary: A Study for "The Marriage Contract"

Jean Baptiste Greuze (French, 1725-1805)

1761

Medium
Black chalk with stumping, with red chalk, heightened with white chalk, on tan laid paper, laid down on card
Classification
Drawing and Watercolor
Dimensions
52.6 × 43.5 cm (20 3/4 × 17 3/16 in.)
Culture
France
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago, Prints and Drawings
Credit line
Wirt D. Walker Endowment
Rights
Public domain (CC0), as the museum states it.
Who can see it
Teens profiles and older: its subject is for older viewers (war, death, the Passion, drink or the like). How works are placed

View at the Art Institute of Chicago