Sacrifice to Love

c. 1766

Jean-Baptiste Greuze

Artist, French, 1725 - 1805

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Artwork overview


Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Marquiset collection. Groult collection, Paris. Private collection; (sale, Hotel Drouot, 20 November 1941, no. 12). Dr. Rudolf J. Heinemann, New York and Lugano; his wife, Mrs. Rudolf J. Heinemann, New York; gift to NGA, 2000.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

2009

  • Renaissance to Revolution: French Drawings from the National Gallery of Art, 1500-1800. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2009, 172-173, 285, no. 75 (color).

Bibliography

1968

  • Wallace Collection Catalogues, Pictures and Drawings. London, 1968: 136.

1989

  • Ingamells, John. The Wallace Collection, Catalogue of Pictures. Vol. 3, French before 1815. London, 1989: 204.

Inscriptions

by later hand, lower left of mount in brown ink: greuze fecit; by later hand, lower center of mount in brown ink: offrande à l'amour; by later hand, center verso of mount in graphite: G (not in Lugt) by later hand, upper left verso of mount in graphite: 2653; by later hand, lower center of mount in graphite: no 145; by later hand, lower left of mount in graphite: various mounter's notes

Wikidata ID

Q64581130


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