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Women and Children Mourning a Dead Man
Jean Baptiste Greuze · 1778
Provenance
Ownership history
- Given by the artist to (possibly Jean-Baptiste-Pierre) Le Brun, 1799 [inscription]. Sold by Gilhofe and Ranschburg, Lucerne, to the Art Institute, 1986.
Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.
Exhibitions
Exhibition history
- New York, The Frick Collection, "From Pontormo to Seurat: Drawings Recently Acquired by The Art Institute of Chicago," April 23-July 7, 1991, n.p., cat. 29 (ill.); traveled to The Art Institute of Chicago, September 10, 1991-January 5, 1992.
Literature
Published references
- Edgar Munhall, Jean-Baptiste Greuze (Hartford, Conn., 1976), pp. 179-80.
- Anne Leonard, The Tragic Muse: Art and Emotion, 1700-1900 (Chicago, Smart Museum of Art, 2011), fig. 12, pp. 23-24, 56
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