The Metropolitan Museum of Art · Drawings and Prints
A Farmer Entrusting the Plow to His Son
Jean-Baptiste Greuze
- Date
- n.d.
- Medium
- Brush and gray wash, over graphite. Framing lines in pen and brown ink. Squared in graphite. Verso of mount: figure in brush and gray wash.
- Dimensions
- 15 7/16 x 19 1/2 in. (39.2 x 49.5 cm)
- Object type
- Drawing
- Classification
- Drawings
- Object number
- 1983.427
- Credit line
- Purchase, Van Truex Day Fund, 1983
Artist information
French, Tournus 1725–1805 Paris
Subjects and terms
- Cows
- Dogs
- Trees
- Farmers
The Met object ID 337256. The source CSV marks this record public domain, the official API identifies it as image-bearing, and the image was reverified as public domain before this page rendered.