Portrait of a lady, bust-length, in a pink dress with a white lace collar

This lovely oval portrait of an unknown woman is a fine example of Greuze's early portrait style, as Edgar Munhall has noted. Judging from its refined execution, it appears to date from the latter 1750s, around the time of Greuze's celebrated portraits of La Live de Jully (National Gallery of Art, Washington) and the Marquise de Bezons (Baltimore Art Museum), both of which were exhibited in the Paris Salon of 1759.

Our thanks to Edgar Munhall for dating the portrait and confirming its attribution to Greuze on the basis of a photograph.

In a carved giltwood Louis XV frame.