ID: 700007765 Page link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/cona/700007765	Record Type: Movable Work

Old Woman with Arms Outstretched (Study for The Neapolitan Gesture) (drawing (visual work); Jean-Baptiste Greuze (French, 1725 - 1805) (French Artist); 1756; J. Paul Getty Museum at the Getty Center (Los Angeles, Los A...; 2003.14)

Titles:

Old Woman with Arms Outstretched (Study for The Neapolitan Gesture) (preferred,C,U,RP,English-P,U,U)

Catalog Level: item

Work Types:

drawing (visual work) [300033973] (preferred)

..... (Objects Facet, Visual and Verbal Communication (hierarchy name), Visual Works (hierarchy name), visual works (works), <visual works by material or technique>)

Classifications:

drawings (preferred)

Creation Date: 1756

Creator Display:

Jean-Baptiste Greuze (French, 1725 - 1805) (French Artist) [preferred,JPGM]

Greuze, Jean Baptiste (French painter, 1725-1805) [500000119]

Locations:

Current: J. Paul Getty Museum at the Getty Center (Los Angeles, Los Angeles county, California, United States) [500329598] J. Paul Getty Museum, J. Paul Getty Trust, Corporate Bodies (Corp. Body)

Repository Numbers: 2003.14

Credit Line: Gift of Joseph F. McCrindle

Display Materials: Black and white chalk, with stumping, on faded blue paper

	black chalk [300080058]
	.......(Materials Facet, Materials (hierarchy name), materials (substances), <materials by composition>, inorganic material, chalk)

	chalk [300011727]
	.......(Materials Facet, Materials (hierarchy name), materials (substances), <materials by composition>, inorganic material)

	stumping [300053412]
	.......(Activities Facet, Processes and Techniques (hierarchy name), <processes and techniques by specific type>, <image-making processes and techniques>, <drawing and drawing techniques>, drawing techniques)

	paper (fiber product) [300014109]
	.......(Materials Facet, Materials (hierarchy name), materials (substances), <materials by form>, <materials by physical form>, <fiber and fiber by product>, <fiber by product>)

Dimensions: 47 x 31.6 cm (18 1/2 x 12 7/16 in.)

Cultures:

French (preferred)

General Subject:

human figures (preferred)

Specific Subjects:

	people (agents) [300024979]
	.....(Agents Facet, People (hierarchy name)) (AAT)

Inscriptions: Lower left corner in brown ink over graphite, "Greuze. F. Romce an. 1756", (recto); in graphite "D.28363" (verso). On frame backing: "Greuze the Draftsman" Exhibition label; "Old Master Drawings from the Collection of Joseph McCrindle" Exhibition label; P.D. Colnaghi label with inscriptions: "An Old Woman With Arms Outstreteched by Jean Baptiste Greuze (1725-1805)/Drawing in Black Chalk with Grey Wash [sic], Heightened with White/signed and dated: Greuze f. romae an. 1756/Greuze was in Rome for one year from 1755, & the study was no doubt made from life."

Related Works:

	study for .... Le Geste Napolitain [700008839]
	..........oil painting (visual work); Jean-Baptiste Greuze (French painter); 1757; Worcester Art Museum (Worcester, Worcester county, Massachus...; 1964.113

List/Hierarchical Position:

..... Movable Works

.......... Movable Works by class: drawings, paintings, prints, other two-dimensional media

Sources and Contributors:
Old Woman with Arms Outstretched (Study for The Neapolitan Gesture)	........ [JPGM,VP]
	........ J. Paul Getty Museum database for collections (2000-)

Subject: ....... [JPGM,VP]