A couple with a child escaping from a burning house

細節

Jean-Baptiste Greuze (Tournus 1725-1805 Paris)
A couple with a child escaping from a burning house
black chalk, pen and brown ink, brown wash heightened with white, watermark proprietary, the lower and upper right corners made-up
19 x 13½ in. (485 x 341 mm.)

來源

Comte de Robault de Beaurieux, France, before 1940.

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拍品專文

Edgar Munhall confirmed the attribution to Greuze on the basis of a photograph in a letter to the previous owner dated 1 March 2003. Dr. Munhall dates the drawing to circa 1790 and compares it to the drawing of the Lamentation (E. Munhall, Greuze the Draftsman, exhib. cat., New York, The Frick Collection, and elsewhere, 2002, no. 90) and points to the influence of Romney's drawing style. Greuze visited Romney in London in 1790.