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Source Description
This drawing belongs to a group of highly finished drawings created by Jean-Baptiste Greuze during the 1770s, many of which focused on family crises and were characterized by groups of figures set in shallow interior spaces. Although the precise subject of the work is unknown, it shows a father and his son kneeling before him. The title, which comes from an inscription on the drawing's original frame, refers to the girl entering the room at right, who is presumably disgraced due to a pregnancy out of wedlock. She is preceded by a woman who angrily confronts the family, gesturing to the girl's swollen stomach, perhaps accusing either the old or young man of impregnating the girl.
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Document identity
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154893
label
The Guilty and Repentant Daughter
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drawing
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Source metadata
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154893
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drawing
title
The Guilty and Repentant Daughter
description
This drawing belongs to a group of highly finished drawings created by Jean-Baptiste Greuze during the 1770s, many of which focused on family crises and were characterized by groups of figures set in shallow interior spaces. Although the precise subject of the work is unknown, it shows a father and his son kneeling before him. The title, which comes from an inscription on the drawing's original frame, refers to the girl entering the room at right, who is presumably disgraced due to a pregnancy out of wedlock. She is preceded by a woman who angrily confronts the family, gesturing to the girl's swollen stomach, perhaps accusing either the old or young man of impregnating the girl.
date
early 1770s
citation
rights
CC0
rightsUri
CC0
language
en
wikidata
Q79942627
creators
11638
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Drawing
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1
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import
dimensionsRaw
Sheet: 49.8 x 64.3 cm (19 5/8 x 25 5/16 in.); Secondary Support: 49.8 x 64.3 cm (19 5/8 x 25 5/16 in.); Tertiary Support: 61.3 x 78.8 cm (24 1/8 x 31 in.)
cul
France, 18th century
accession
1989.46
Source extras
tec
brush and black and gray wash over black chalk
tombstone
The Guilty and Repentant Daughter, early 1770s. Jean-Baptiste Greuze (French, 1725–1805). Brush and black and gray wash over black chalk; sheet: 49.8 x 64.3 cm (19 5/8 x 25 5/16 in.); secondary support: 49.8 x 64.3 cm (19 5/8 x 25 5/16 in.); tertiary support: 61.3 x 78.8 cm (24 1/8 x 31 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Leonard C. Hanna Jr. Fund, 1989.46
supportMaterials
description
cream(1) laid paper, perimeter mounted to cream(3) board, hinged to tertiary support of board
collection
DR - French
inscriptions
inscription
secondary support, upper center, in graphite: 60_ x 78 / vue du cadre [upside down]; on 19th-century backing of old frame, upper center, in black ink: Cabinet de Mr Clu Magne; upper center, in brown ink: La fille Coupable et Repentante / Déssiné par J. B. Greuze [overlined and underlined]; center, in black ink: M
didYouKnow
The man who served as the model for the father in Greuze's drawing also appears as a butcher in another sheet by the artist.
citations
citation
Bull, Duncan. "Exhibition Reviews: London, Old Master Drawings." <em>Burlington Magazine</em> 131, no. 1030 (January 1989): 49.
page_number
Reproduced: p. 48
citation
<em>Maîtres français 1550-1800: dessins de la donation Mathias Polakovits à l'École des Beaux-Arts, Paris</em>. Exh. Cat. Paris: École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts, 1989.
page_number
Mentioned and reproduced: 240
citation
E. H. T. “The Year in Review: Selections 1989.” <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em> 77, no. 2 (February 1990): 38–78.
page_number
Reproduced: p. 48; Mentioned: p. 75, no. 151
citation
"Recent acquisitions at the Cleveland Museum of Art 1: Departments of Western Art." <em>Burlington Magazine </em>133, no. 1054 (January 1991): 65.
page_number
Mentioned and reproduced: p. 65
citation
DeGrazia, Diane and Carter E. Foster. <em>Master Drawings from the Cleveland Museum of Art.</em> Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art in association with Rizzoli International Publications, New York, 2000.
page_number
Mentioned: p. 12, p. 116-17, p. 289; Reproduced: p. 117
citation
Munhall, Edgar, and Irina Novosselskaya. <em>Greuze the Draftsman</em>. Exh. Cat. New York: Frick Collection, in association with Merrell, 2002.
page_number
Mentioned and reproduced: pp. 206-207, no. 72
citation
Conisbee, Philip. <em>French Genre Painting in the Eighteenth Century.</em> Washington, D.C.: National Gallery of Art, 2007.
page_number
Reproduced: p. 180, fig. 3
creditline
Leonard C. Hanna Jr. Fund
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2026-05-29 08:01:19.963000
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154893
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Drawings
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DR - French
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brush and black and gray wash over black chalk
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male
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