Jean-Baptiste Greuze

The Return of the Young Hunter

c. 1775

Dating

Approximate

Made in

France

Held at

Minneapolis Institute of Art

Medium

Pen and black ink, brush and black and gray wash, heightened with white, over graphite, on brown paper, laid down on ivory paper with framing lines in pen and brown ink

Dimensions

20 1/2 x 26 5/16 in. (52.1 x 66.9 cm) (image) 32 7/8 x 38 x 1 3/4 in. (83.5 x 96.52 x 4.45 cm) (outer frame)

Collection no.

70.13

Attribution

By the artist

Image rights

Public Domain Mark 1.0License details

Jean-Baptiste Greuze. The Return of the Young Hunter. Jean-Baptiste Greuze; Minneapolis Institute of Art; The John R. Van Derlip Fund; 70.13. Public Domain Mark 1.0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.