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The Notary: A Study for "The Marriage Contract", 1761. Black chalk with stumping, with red chalk, heightened with white chalk, on tan laid paper, laid down on card.
Black chalk with stumping, with red chalk, heightened with white chalk, on tan laid paper, laid down on card · 52.6 × 43.5 cm · Art Institute of Chicago
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- Museum title
- The Notary: A Study for "The Marriage Contract"
- Artist
- Jean-Baptiste Greuze French, 1725-1805
- Date
- 1761
- Medium
- Black chalk with stumping, with red chalk, heightened with white chalk, on tan laid paper, laid down on card
- Dimensions
- 52.6 × 43.5 cm (20 3/4 × 17 3/16 in.)
- Credit line
- Wirt D. Walker Endowment
- Image license
- CC0 1.0 · Public domain
- Museum record
- Art Institute of Chicago
Artist’s life 1725–1805
View in the AtlasGaller’s rooms and hanging scale are imagined. The image is the museum’s original digital reproduction.