Art, literature & history
The Well-Loved Mother
1765
- Dating
- Exact year
- Held at
- National Gallery of Art
- Medium
- pastel with colored chalks and stumping on light golden-brown laid paper
- Dimensions
- overall: 44 x 32.2 cm (17 5/16 x 12 11/16 in.)
- Collection no.
- 2000.15.1
- Attribution
- By the artist
- Image rights
- CC0 1.0License details
Jean-Baptiste Greuze. The Well-Loved Mother. Jean-Baptiste Greuze; This file was donated to Wikimedia Commons as part of a project by the National Gallery of Art . Please see the Gallery's Open Access Policy .. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Jean-Baptiste_Greuze,_The_Well-Loved_Mother,_1765,_NGA_111508.jpg. CC0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.
Collection: National Gallery of Art
About this artwork
The Well-Loved Mother — Jean-Baptiste Greuze. 1765.
Medium: pastel with colored chalks and stumping on light golden-brown laid paper.
Dimensions (museum labels retained): overall: 44 x 32.2 cm (17 5/16 x 12 11/16 in.).
Collection: National Gallery of Art, Washington. Accession 2000.15.1. New Century Fund.
Museum holding does not establish current display.
Source: National Gallery of Art, CC0 collection metadata, retrieved 9 September 2026.
Location checked Sep 9, 2026. This does not indicate whether the work is on display.