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Artist/Maker(s): Jean-Baptiste Greuze (French, 1725 - 1805)
Culture: French
Date: 1756
Medium: Black and white chalk, with stumping, on faded blue paper
Dimensions: 47 x 31.6 cm (18 1/2 x 12 7/16 in.)
Inscriptions: Lower left corner in brown ink over graphite, Greuze. F. Romce an. 1756”, (recto) in graphite “D.28363” (verso). On frame backing: “Greuze the Draftsman” Exhibition label “Old Master Drawings from the Collection of Joseph McCrindle” Exhibition label P.D. Colnaghi label with inscriptions: “An Old Woman With Arms Outstreteched by Jean Baptiste Greuze (1725-1805)/Drawing in Black Chalk with Grey Wash [sic], Heightened with White/signed and dated: Greuze f. romae an. 1756/Greuze was in Rome for one year from 1755, & the study was no doubt made from life.
SKU: 200872
