Art, literature & history
The Ungrateful Son
c. 1770
- Dating
- Approximate
- Held at
- National Gallery of Art
- Medium
- red chalk on brown laid paper with framing line in black ink
- Dimensions
- overall: 42.7 x 33.1 cm (16 13/16 x 13 1/16 in.)
- Collection no.
- 1991.91.1
- Attribution
- By the artist
- Image rights
- CC0 1.0License details
Jean-Baptiste Greuze. The Ungrateful Son. 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_Ungrateful_Son,_c._1770,_NGA_72876.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 Ungrateful Son — Jean-Baptiste Greuze. c. 1770.
Medium: red chalk on brown laid paper with framing line in black ink.
Dimensions (museum labels retained): overall: 42.7 x 33.1 cm (16 13/16 x 13 1/16 in.).
Collection: National Gallery of Art, Washington. Accession 1991.91.1. Gift in memory of Douglas Huntly Gordon and in Honor of the 50th Anniversary of the National Gallery of Art.
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.