Bolognese Peasant Girl with a Distaff

1755

Dating: Exact year
Held at: The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Medium: Pen and black ink, brush and gray wash, over traces of graphite
Dimensions: 7 15/16 x 5 3/8 in. (20.2 x 13.6 cm)
Collection no.: 1982.93.2
Attribution: By the artist
Image rights: CC0 1.0License details

Jean-Baptiste Greuze. Bolognese Peasant Girl with a Distaff. Jean-Baptiste Greuze; The Metropolitan Museum of Art; Harry G. Sperling Fund, 1982. CC0 1.0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.

Collection: The Metropolitan Museum of Art

About this artwork

Bolognese Peasant Girl with a Distaff — Jean-Baptiste Greuze. 1755.

Medium: Pen and black ink, brush and gray wash, over traces of graphite. Dimensions: 7 15/16 x 5 3/8 in. (20.2 x 13.6 cm).

Collection record: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Museum connection according to this source; current display unverified.

Credit line: Harry G. Sperling Fund, 1982.

This is a museum catalogue record, not a current-display assertion.

Source: official collection record. Metadata selected and normalized by Artline from the source export, accessed 10 September 2026; no museum endorsement. Reproduction rights are separate.

Location checked Sep 10, 2026. This does not indicate whether the work is on display.

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