# The Charitable Woman (La Dame de Charité)

- By: Jean-Baptiste Greuze (French, 1725 - 1805)
- Date: 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
- Credit line: The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles
- Museum: [J. Paul Getty Museum](https://www.getty.edu/art/collection/object/108JCX)
- Rights: [CC0. Digital image courtesy of Getty's Open Content Program](https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)
- Picture: https://media.getty.edu/iiif/image/123480cb-a075-4a71-bc7e-eeae96ef828f/full/!1920,1080/0/default.jpg
- Who can see it: Tweens profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)