Study of hands

细节

Jean-Baptiste Greuze (Tournus 1725-1805 Paris)
Study of hands
red chalk
13 x 9 7/8 in. (33 x 25 cm.)

来源

Garnier Collection.
Kavaisson Collection.
Dr. G. Lapone, New York.
with Delius Gallery, date unknown.
Curtis O. Baer (L. 3366).

展览

Cambridge, Mass., Fogg Art Museum, Drawings from the Collection of Curtis O. Baer, 1958, no. 41.
Washington D.C., National Gallery of Art, and other locations, Master Drawings from Titian to Picasso: The Curtis O. Baer Collection, 1985-7, no. 63.

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Probably preparatory for the hands of the supplicating mother in Greuze's painting The Drunken Cobbler, datable to the early 1780s (Portland, Art Museum). Another study of hands in the Yale University Art Gallery has been linked by Edgar Munhall to the same composition; he identified them as studies for the hands of the father (E. Munhall, Jean-Baptiste Greuze: 1725-1805, exhib. cat., Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, 1976, p. 187, no. 93). The sheets exemplify Greuze's consistent concern to properly represent the emotions of his figures through their gestures, a preoccupation which has resulted in a particularly high proportion of studies of hands and feet among his surviving drawings.