Jean-Baptiste Greuze* (1725-1805)

Details

Jean-Baptiste Greuze* (1725-1805)

Portrait of a young Girl, small half length, en déshabillé

oil on panel--unframed
16¼ x 12½in. (41.2 x 31.7cm.)

Provenance

Prince Eugène-Rose de Beauharnais (1781-1824), Duke of Leuchtenberg.
His second son and heir, Maximilian-Eugène Auguste-Joseph-Napoléon de Beauharnais (1817-1852), Duke of Leuchtenberg.
with Nordiska Kompanier, Stockholm, 1917.

Literature

Gemälde Sammlung in München des Dom Augusto, Herzogs von Leuchtenberg, 1835, p. 32, no. 54, engraving illustrated.
Verzeichniss der Bilder Seiner königlichen Hoheit des Prinzen Eugen, Herzogs von Leuchtenberg in München, 1843, p. 11, no. 34.
J.D. Passavant, Gemälde-Sammlung des Herzogs von Leuchtenberg in München, 1851, p. 34, no. 179, engraving illustrated.
Leuchtenbergska Tavel samlingen, 1917, no. 67.

Lot Essay

Prince Eugène-Rose de Beauharnais assembled an impressive collection of pictures while accompanying his stepfather Napoleon on his Italian campaigns and during his years as Viceroy of Italy from 1805-1814. He married the daughter of the King of Bavaria, and on settling there after Napoleon's fall, was created Duke of Leuchtenberg. Prince Eugène's second son and heir, Maximilian, married the daughter of Tsar Nicholas I of Russia. It appears that some of the Leuchtenberg collection was sold shortly before the 1914-1918 war.

We are grateful to Dr. Anita Brookner for confirming the attribution, on the basis of a transparency. She dates the work to circa 1790-1800 in a letter dated London, October 20, 1991.