Jean-Baptiste Greuze (1725-1805)
Jean-Baptiste Greuze (1725-1805)

The head of a young girl inclined to the left

Details
Jean-Baptiste Greuze (1725-1805)
Greuze, J.-B.
The head of a young girl inclined to the left
red chalk, fragmentary watermark U
15.5/8 x 12.1/8 in. (397 x 309 mm.)
Provenance
Alliance des Arts (L. 61).

Lot Essay

Related to the seated mother in the picture L'enfant Gt in the Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg, A. Brookner, Greuze, The rise and fall of an eighteenth-century phenomenon, London, 1972, p. 98, pl. 19. The picture was exhibited at the Salon of 1765, no. 111, and was then in the collection of the Duc de Praslin.