Art, literature & history
Sacrifice to Love
c. 1766
- Dating
- Approximate
- Held at
- National Gallery of Art
- Medium
- gray and black wash over graphite on laid paper, with framing line in dark brown ink
- Dimensions
- overall: 40.7 x 35.4 cm (16 x 13 15/16 in.)
- Collection no.
- 2000.97.1
- Attribution
- By the artist
- Image rights
- CC0 1.0License details
Jean-Baptiste Greuze. Sacrifice to Love. 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,_Sacrifice_to_Love,_c._1766,_NGA_116706.jpg. CC0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.
Collection: National Gallery of Art
About this artwork
Sacrifice to Love — Jean-Baptiste Greuze. c. 1766.
Medium: gray and black wash over graphite on laid paper, with framing line in dark brown ink.
Dimensions (museum labels retained): overall: 40.7 x 35.4 cm (16 x 13 15/16 in.).
Collection: National Gallery of Art, Washington. Accession 2000.97.1. Bequest of Lore Heinemann in memory of her husband, Dr. Rudolf J. Heinemann.
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.