Jean Touzé (Paris 1747-1809)
Jean Touzé (Paris 1747-1809)

La diseuse de bonne aventure (The fortune teller); and Le galant entreprenant (The enterprising seducer)

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Jean Touzé (Paris 1747-1809)
La diseuse de bonne aventure (The fortune teller); and Le galant entreprenant (The enterprising seducer)
black chalk, brown wash, heightened with white on buff paper
19 1/8 x 15¼ in. (48.4 x 38.5 cm.)
(2)a pair
Provenance
Anonymous sale; Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 22 March 2002, lot 120.
Acquired from the above by the present owner.

Lot Essay

A more finished version of The enterprising seducer is recorded in the sale catalogue of the Albert Meyer collection (Paris, Galerie Charpentier, 15 June 1938, lot 47, entitled Les repasseuses). Touzé was a pupil of Jean-Baptiste Greuze (1725-1805), and is known for his slightly bawdy scenes of peasant life. See, for example, Scène de marché avec un homme importunant une jeune femme, sold at Christie's, Paris, 26 March 2014, lot 110.

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