# The Notary: A Study for "The Marriage Contract"

- By: Jean Baptiste Greuze (French, 1725-1805)
- Date: 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
- Credit line: Wirt D. Walker Endowment
- Museum: [Art Institute of Chicago](https://www.artic.edu/artworks/150769)
- Rights: [Public domain (CC0)](https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)
- Picture: https://www.artic.edu/iiif/2/39d1f979-12a7-c76d-404d-1e7f7f49c6a1/full/843,/0/default.jpg
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