Lot 98
98
Jean-Baptiste Greuze (Tournus 1725-1805 Paris)
Jean-Baptiste Greuze (Tournus 1725-1805 Paris)

A reclining female nude

Details
Jean-Baptiste Greuze (Tournus 1725-1805 Paris)
A reclining female nude
red chalk on light brown paper
12 3/8 x 17¼ in. (315 x 439 mm.)
Provenance
Baron Louis-Auguste de Schwiter (L. 1768); Paris, 20-21 April 1883, lot 56.
Literature
J. Masson, J.-B. Greuze, Paris, 1908, no. 1633.

Lot Essay

A counterproof of this drawing, tentatively associated with Greuze's La mère bien aimée in the collection of the Marquis de Laborde, is in the Musée des Beaux-Arts, Besançon (photograph in the Witt Library).

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