Lot 38
Jean-Baptiste Greuze
Tournus 1725 - 1805 Paris
A young woman appearing behind a curtain, her hand at her mouth
Red chalk;
signed in red chalk, lower center: Greuze
420 by 318 mm; 16½ by 12½ in.
Condition Report
Provenance
From the artist's studio, with related inventory number, '8-No 56',
probably acquired by the Grand Duke Petrovich from the artist;
Académie des Beaux-Arts, St. Petersburg (L.2699a; with portfolio number 80-3-3, no. 42);
sale, Leipzig, C.G. Boerner, 29 April 1931, lot 99;
sale, New York, Sotheby's, 13 January 1989, lot 12;
sale, New York, Christie's, 9 January 1991, lot 60;
sale, London, Christie's, 6 July 1999, lot 185
Literature
F. Monod and L. Hautecoeur, Les Dessins de Greuze conservés a L'Académie des Beaux-Arts de Saint Petersbourg, Paris, 1922, p. 36;
Greuze the Draftsman, exhib.cat., New York, The Frick Collection, 2002, p. 154, under cat. no. 50, reproduced fig. 124
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