The Ungrateful Son, c. 1770

Not on View

Medium

red chalk on brown laid paper with framing line in black ink

Dimensions

overall: 42.7 x 33.1 cm (16 13/16 x 13 1/16 in.)

Credit Line

Gift in memory of Douglas Huntly Gordon and in Honor of the 50th Anniversary of the National Gallery of Art

Accession Number

1991.91.1

Artists / Makers

Jean-Baptiste Greuze (artist) French, 1725 - 1805

Image Use

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Inscription

on verso in graphite at center: 34.7 x 44, and in graphite at lower right: 90

Marks and Labels

Cm: Prince W. Argoutinsky-Dolgoroukoff (Lugt 2602d)

Provenance

Charles Fairfax-Murray [1849-1919], London; Prince W. Argoutinsky-Dolgoronkoff, Paris (Lugt 2602d) (his sale, London, Sotheby's 4 July 1923, no. 41); Tancred Borenius; Mrs. W. H. Hill, Boston; Mrs. Smith, New York; Douglas H. Gordon, 1942 (Lugt 1130a); given by Mrs. Gordon to the National Gallery, 1991.

Associated Names

Argoutinsky-Dolgoronkoff, W., Prince
Borenius, Tancred, Dr.
Gordon, Douglas H., Mrs.
Hill, W. H., Mrs.
Murray, Charles Fairfax
Sotheby's, London

Exhibition History

1961: French Masters: Rococo to Romanticism. Los Angeles, The UCLA Art Galleries. Los Angeles, 1961, no. 42.

1976: Jean-Baptiste Greuze, 1725-1805. Hartford, Wadsworth Atheneum; San Francisco, Palace of the Legion of Honor; Dijon, Musée des Beaux-Arts, 1976-1977, no. 85 (Edgar Munhall).

1984: Baltimore Collections: French and Italian Drawings, 1715-1814. Baltimore Museum of Art, 1984.

1991: Art for the Nation: Gifts in Honor of the 50th Anniversairy of the National Gallery of Art. Washington, National Gallery of Art, 1991, (no cat. no; one of the Supplement pages tucked into the cover).

2002: Greuze the Draftsman. The Frick Collection, New York; The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles. New York, 2002, no. 84 (color; and reprod. on the cover) (Edgar Munhall).

2009: Renaissance to Revolution: French Drawings from the National Gallery of Art, 1500-1800. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2009,174-175, 285, no. 76 (color).

Bibliography

1993: Denison, Cara D. French Master Drawings from The Pierpont Morgan Library. Exh. cat. Paris, Musée du Louvre; New York, The Pierpont Morgan Library, 1993-1994, 150-151, under no. 66.