L'enfant gâté: A boy standing at a table feeding a dog with a spoon

Details

Jean-Baptiste Greuze (Tournus 1725-1805 Paris)
L'enfant gâté: A boy standing at a table feeding a dog with a spoon
signed and dated 'Greuze. 1761.'
black chalk, pen and black ink, brown and grey wash, on an 18th Century French mount
7 5/8 x 6 1/8 in. (195 x 151 mm.)

Provenance

Probably acquired by John Frederick Sackville, 3rd Duke of Dorset, K.G., P.C. (1745-1799), or by Sir Charles Whitworth, K.B., subsequently 1st Earl Whitworth, G.C.B., P.C. (1752-1825), and by descent in the Sackville family, subsequently the Sackville-West family, at Knole Park, Kent. See the provenance and note for lot 131.

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Lot Essay

A study for The Spoiled Child (L'enfant gâté) now in the Hermitage (C. Eisler, Paintings in the Hermitage, New York, 1990, p. 434). The painting was bought from Greuze in 1763 by Duc de Choiseul-Praslin, and exhibited from that collection at the Salon of 1765.

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