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Jean-Baptiste Greuze

The Guilty and Repentant Daughter

early 1770s
brush and black and gray wash over black chalk

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FROM THE CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF ART’S CATALOG

The man who served as the model for the father in Greuze's drawing also appears as a butcher in another sheet by the artist.

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