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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1965.291
People
Jean-Baptiste Greuze, French (Tournus 1725 - 1805 Paris)
Title
Kneeling Man
Other Titles
Former Title: Kneeling Youth with Outstretched Hand
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
1768
Culture
French
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/296773

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Red chalk on cream antique laid paper, laid down on cream wove paper
Dimensions
36 x 30.1 cm (14 3/16 x 11 7/8 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • watermark: none visible
  • inscription:

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Georges Bourgarel, Toulon and Paris; his sale, Drouot (Lair-Dubreuil), Paris, 15-16 June 1922, lot 96; Henri Baderou, Paris and Rouen; Richard Owen, Paris (by 1923), sold; to Meta and Paul J. Sachs, Cambridge; Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Meta and Paul J. Sachs

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Meta and Paul J. Sachs
Accession Year
1965
Object Number
1965.291
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Jean Martin and Charles Masson, Catalogue Raisonné de l'Œuvre Peint et Dessiné de Jean-Baptiste Greuze, H. Piazza (Paris, 1908), cat. no. 408, p. 28
  • Agnes Mongan and Paul J. Sachs, Drawings in the Fogg Museum of Art, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, 1940), cat. no. 624, vol. 1, p. 332, vol. 3, p. viii
  • Agnes Mongan, French Drawings of Five Centuries from the Collection of the Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, exh. cat., Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, 1951), cat. no. 20, n.p.
  • An Exhibition of Drawings, exh. cat., Colby College, Miller Library (Waterville, 1956), cat. no. 14, n.p.
  • Gertrude Rosenthal, Age of Elegance: The Rococo and its Effect, exh. cat., Baltimore Museum of Art (Baltimore, 1959), cat. no. 56, pp. 32, 50
  • Edgar Munhall, “Greuze’s Frontispiece for ‘Sophronie’”, Gazette des Beaux-Arts, Gazette des Beaux-Arts (Paris, 1961), vol. 58, no. 1113, October, pp. 237-42, pp. 237-39, 242-n.3
  • "Acquisitions", Acquisitions (Fogg Art Museum), ed. John Coolidge, Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, 1965), pp. 17-58, p. 31
  • Agnes Mongan, Memorial Exhibition: Works of Art from the Collection of Paul J. Sachs [1878-1965]: given and bequeathed to the Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, exh. cat., Harvard University (Cambridge, MA, 1965), cat. no. 31, n.p.
  • Nathan Goldstein, Figure Drawing: The Structure, Anatomy, and Expressive Design of Human Form, Prentice Hall (Englewood Cliffs, 1976), p. 277
  • Edgar Munhall and Joseph Focarino, Jean-Baptiste Greuze, 1725-1805, exh. cat., Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art (Hartford, 1976-1977), cat. no. 63, pp. 136-37
  • Nathan Goldstein, Figure Drawing: The Structure, Anatomy, and Expressive Design of Human Form, Prentice Hall (Englewood Cliffs, 1981), pp. 317, 330-31
  • Suzanne Folds McCullagh, ed., Maineri to Miró: The Regenstein Collection Since 1975, The Art Institute of Chicago (Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies, 2000), p. 50
  • Edgar Munhall, Greuze the Draftsman, exh. cat., Merrell Publishers Ltd. / The Frick Collection (New York, 2002), p. 196
  • Alvin L. Clark, Jr. and Edouard Kopp, French Drawings from the Age of Claude, Poussin, Watteau, and Fragonard: Highlights from the Collection of the Harvard Art Museums, Harvard Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, 2022), cat. no. 81, repr., p. 17

Exhibition History

  • French Drawings of Five Centuries from the Collection of the Fogg Museum of Art, Harvard University, Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, 05/15/1951 - 09/30/1951
  • An Exhibition of Drawings, Colby College, Miller Library, Waterville, 04/27/1956 - 05/23/1956
  • The Age of Elegance: The Rococo and its Effect, Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, 04/25/1959 - 06/14/1959
  • Memorial Exhibition: Works of Art from the Collection of Paul J. Sachs [1878-1965] Given and Bequeathed to the Fogg Art Museum Harvard University Cambridge, Massachusetts, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 11/15/1965 - 01/15/1966; The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 12/19/1966 - 02/26/1967
  • Jean-Baptiste Greuze, 1725-1805, Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, 12/01/1976 - 01/23/1977; California Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco, 03/05/1977 - 05/01/1977; Musée des Beaux-Arts de Dijon, Dijon, 06/04/1977 - 07/31/1977

Verification Level

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