Head of a Young Boy
Jean-Baptiste Greuze
1763 · Oil on canvas · European Paintings
Greuze exhibited this character study of a young boy at the Salon of 1763, at which time it belonged to the celebrated drawings collector Pierre Jean Mariette. Relatively rough brushwork is used throughout—the individual strokes are not disguised. This is deliberate and typical of studies that Greuze made from models rather than his commissioned portraits.
- Artist
- Jean-Baptiste Greuze
- Date
- 1763
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Department
- European Paintings
- Credit line
- The Friedsam Collection, Bequest of Michael Friedsam, 1931
