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Jean-Baptiste Greuze
French, 1725–1805
The Motherly Reprimand
c. 1760
Image Caption
Jean-Baptiste Greuze, The Motherly Reprimand, c. 1760, pen and brush and gray ink and gray wash and touches of light brown wash on squared paper. Clark Art Institute, 1955.1660
Medium
pen and brush and gray ink and gray wash and touches of light brown wash on squared paper
Dimensions
Overall: 18 x 13 1/2 in. (45.7 x 34.3 cm)
Object Number
1955.1660
Acquisition
Acquired by Sterling and Francine Clark before 1955
Status
Off View
Select Bibliography
Haverkamp-Begemann, Egbert, Standish D. Lawder, and Charles W. Talbot, Jr. Drawings from the Clark Art Institute: A Catalogue Raisonné of the Robert Sterling Clark Collection of European and American Drawings, Sixteenth Through Nineteenth Centuries, at the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Williamstown. 2 volumes. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1964. Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. Exhibit Thirty-one: Drawings of the 16th, 17th and 18th Centuries. Exhibition catalogue. Williamstown, MA: 1965. Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. A Selection of Drawings from the Collection of the Clark Art Institute. Exhibition catalogue. Williamstown, MA: The Clark, 1974. Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. Products of the Perfected Civilization: French Life before 1789. Exhibition catalogue. Williamstown, MA: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1975. Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford.. Jean-Baptiste Greuze, 1725-1805. Dec. 1, 1976-Jan. 23, 1977; California Palace of the Legion of Honor, March 5-May 1, 1977; Musée des Beaux-Arts, Dijon, June 4-July 3, 1977. Brooke, David S. Master Drawings: Robert Sterling Clark as a Collector. Exhibition catalogue. Williamstown, MA: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1995. Colin Bailey.. Jean-Baptiste Greuze: The Laundress.. Los Angeles: The J. Paul Getty Museum.. 2000..
Provenance
Trouard, Paris (sale Paris, Hôtel d'Aligre, Feb. 22–27, 1779, no. 182 {as "Une mère grondant son engant qui donne à manger à un chien, dessin à la plume lavé de bistre"}); possibly Coll. Haudry, Orléans; J. A. Boussac (sale Paris, March 4, 1931, no. 52 {illustrated}); Charles d'Heucqueville (sale Paris, March 24–25, 1936, no. 36, pl. XII {as La répréhension maternelle}); Robert Sterling Clark.