Sacrifice to Love
c. 1766
Jean-Baptiste Greuze
Artist, French, 1725 - 1805
Artwork overview
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Medium
gray and black wash over graphite on laid paper, with framing line in dark brown ink
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Credit Line
Bequest of Lore Heinemann in memory of her husband, Dr. Rudolf J. Heinemann
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Dimensions
overall: 40.7 x 35.4 cm (16 x 13 15/16 in.)
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Accession Number
2000.97.1
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