The Charitable Woman (La Dame de Charité), by Jean-Baptiste Greuze, 1772–1775
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The Charitable Woman (La Dame de Charité)

Jean-Baptiste Greuze (French, 1725 - 1805)

1772–1775

Medium
Brush and black ink and brush and gray and brown wash over black chalk, heightened with white opaque watercolor, on blue paper (now discolored)
Classification
Drawing
Dimensions
Unframed: 48.9 × 66 cm (19 1/4 × 26 in.)
Culture
French
Museum
J. Paul Getty Museum, Drawings
Credit line
The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles
Rights
CC0. Digital image courtesy of Getty's Open Content Program, as the museum states it.
Who can see it
Tweens profiles and older: its subjects are known and suit older children. How works are placed

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