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The Notary: A Study for "The Marriage Contract"
Jean Baptiste Greuze · 1761
Provenance
Ownership history
- 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.
Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.
Exhibitions
Exhibition history
- London, Thomas Agnew and Sons, "From Claude to Gericault: The Arts in France," June-July 1986, cat. 28.
- London, Spink-Leger Gallery, "Master Drawings: 17th to 20th Century," 1998, cat. 6.
- New York, The Frick Collection, "Greuze: Master Draughtsman," November 5, 2001-January 27, 2002, cat. 19; also traveled to the J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, Calif., September 10-December 1, 2002.
Literature
Published references
- Edgar Munhall, Jean-Baptiste Greuze (Hartford, Conn., 1976), p. 86.
- Marie-Catherine Sahut and Natalie Volle, Diderot et l'Art de Boucher à David (Paris, 1984), p. 227.
- Richard Rand, "Civil and Natural Contract in Greuze's L'Accordée de Village," Gazette des Beaux-Arts 1528 (May-June 1996), p. 223 (ill.).
- Suzanne Folds McCullagh, "Never Dormant: Drawings in Chicago," Master Drawings (2000).
- Treasures from The Art Institute of Chicago, selected by James N. Wood, with commentaries by Debra N. Mancoff (Chicago, 2000), p. 140 (ill.).
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