# Study of a Groom, in The French eighteenth century

Jean Baptiste Greuze painted this in about 1760, aged about 30. It is now at the Art Institute of Chicago.

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## The work

- Date: c. 1760
- Medium: Black chalk, with stumping and black crayon, red and brown chalk, heightened with white chalk, on buff laid paper, laid down on cream laid paper
- Dimensions: 50.7 × 29.4 cm (20 × 11 5/8 in.)
- Type: Drawing and Watercolor
- Courtesy of the Art Institute of Chicago, 1968.461
- Licence: CC0 1.0

## The artist

[Jean Baptiste Greuze](https://www.ochreeditions.com/artists/jean-baptiste-greuze), French, 1725–1805

Greuze rose to fame at the Paris Salon in the later 1750s with moralising scenes of family life, sentimental and theatrical, which the critic Denis Diderot championed. Broken Eggs, shown at the Salon of 1757, tells a story of lost innocence through a single domestic incident.

3 works in the collection.

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