A seated girl in profile to the right

Details

Jean-Baptiste Greuze (1725-1805)
A seated girl in profile to the right
red chalk
13¾ x 101/8 in. (349 x 258 mm.)

Provenance

The artist's studio, with related inventory number '9 - 57.'
Grand Duke Paul Petrovitch, probably from the artist.
Académie des Beaux-Arts, St. Petersburg (L. 2699a) with portfolio number '80-3-1, no. 62'; C.G. Boerner, Leipzig, 29 April 1931, lot 102. with M. Knoedler & Co., New York.

Literature

F. Monod and L. Hautecoeur, Les dessins de Greuze conservés à l'Académie des Beaux-Arts de Saint Petersburg, Paris, 1922, no. 62.

Lot Essay

Probably an early drawing by Greuze, done under the influence of François Boucher. A drawing of a similar subject, connected to the picture of the Vertu chancelante in Munich, is in the Musée du Louvre (the drawing: E. Munhall, Jean-Baptiste Greuze, exhib. cat., Hartford, Wadsworth Atheneum and elsewhere, 1976, no. 77; the picture: A. Brookner, Greuze, The rise and fall of an eighteenth-century phenomenon, Greenwich, 1972, pl. 50). The picture, with an implicit moral message, represents a young girl seated in an attic by an unmade bed and holding a gold pocket watch.

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