The Notary: A Study for "The Marriage Contract"

Provenance

Baron Domitille de Lagny, France, from the mid-nineteenth century and by descent to 1986 [London 1998]; Thomas Agnew and Son, London, 1986 [London 1986]; Jaime Ortiz-Patino, from 1986 [London 1998]. Private collector, United States, to 1997 [London 1998]. Sold by Spink-Leger Pictures, London, to the Art Institute, 1999.

The Notary: A Study for "The Marriage Contract"

Jean Baptiste Greuze

1761

Accession Number

150769

Medium

Black chalk with stumping, with red chalk, heightened with white chalk, on tan laid paper, laid down on card

Dimensions

52.6 × 43.5 cm (20 3/4 × 17 3/16 in.)

Classification

chalk

Museum

The Art Institute of Chicago

Chicago, United States

Credit Line

Wirt D. Walker Endowment